 | Industrial arts - 1832 - 488 pages
...Rot inferior to that of the poet and the orator. And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere...not all the arts of civilization follow in the train 1 and has not he who has trebled the value of land, created capital, rescued the population from the... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...imagination, not inferior to that of the poet and orator. And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere...train? and has not he who has trebled the value of the land, created capital, rescued the population from the necessity of drudgery, covered a waste with... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 330 pages
...imagination, not inferior to that of the poet and orator. And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere...train? and has not he who has trebled the value of the land, created capital, rescued the population from the necessity of drudgery, covered a waste with... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...the imagination, not inferior to that of the poet and the orator." And in concluding he asks, — " Has not he who has trebled the value of land, created...necessity of emigrating, and covered a waste with plenty — hr.s not he done * The wonls of Mr. Justice Johnson of South Carolina, ii l^e opinion in tb case... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 pages
...imagination, not inferior to that of the poet and orator. And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere...train ? and has not he who has trebled the value of the land, created capital, rescued the population from the necessity of drudgery, covered a waste with... | |
 | Henry Mitchell MacCracken - United States - 1901 - 384 pages
...EAST PEDIMENT OF TEACHERS' PAVILION " For Great A mericans" as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere...But do not all the arts of civilization follow in its train ? Has not he who trebled the value of land, created capital, rescued the population from... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 426 pages
...procession of George Washington moved through its streets. CHAPTER XXII. ELI WHITNEY " The machine, it is true, operates in the first instance on mere...but do not all the arts of civilization follow in its train." INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY Of ELI WHITNEY IN THE HALL OF FAME. ELI... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 420 pages
...procession of George Washington moved through its streets. 230 CHAPTER XXII. ELI WHITNEY " The machine, it is true, operates in the first instance on mere...distribution of property, but do not all the arts of civilisation follow in its train." INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF Eu WHITNEY IN... | |
 | Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...rivalling the latter as much as the former. . . . And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere physical elements. . . . But Jo not all the arts of civilization follow in the train? Later the rhetoric of progress becomes... | |
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And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, operates, in the first instance, on mere physical elements, to produce an accumulation and distribution of property. But do not all the arts of civilization follow in the train? 