To seize the living scroll of human progress, inscribed with every successive conquest of man's intellect, filled with each discovery in the constructive arts, embellished with each plastic grace of figured surface or of moulded form, and unroll this before the eyes of men, the whole stream of history furnishing its contingent, - placing Archimedes, Arkwright, Davy, Jacquard, Watt, and Stephenson side by side, - leaving the instructive lesson to be learned that always lies in the knowledge and example of great things done; - this is, indeed, no mean design, no infelicitous conception.
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2023-10-29