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provement. rrhc "loughman is worth)' of reo
Bped, Lut that 1'1ol1ghm.'l.u llIight become a
lnau of scjcnce, und llncleTRL'lnrl the nature of
roils, aud learn how to make two blades of
gmss grow where only one grew before. The
individunl, w}w, l'pade in hand, ui~ the (.'anal
aml throws up the crnL:Ulkmrmt for a railroad,
ought to bt:ltreated with regard; but thnt Ycr)'
individual might perhnps fit himddf for tho
higher work of engineering, and thUfl layout
the road on which he now toil::!. The person
who mallag~ the spindle and weaves the cloth
we wear: is to be prized i but that same person
might, it is probable, risc to ullder",taml the
natilfc of the machinery he works, :1T1,l super-
inv'nd it.~ Cft;ction. This would be aJdiug to
the domnin of matter, the higher nnd nobler
domain of' mind. 'I'hc km(li-l that ~tir and the
feet that Inoye are thus brought under the Ctlll.
trol of the more exalted, though at the satlle
time lIlore quiet.nnJ fceble e~Ye. Thought aud
intclJigcIlce I..-'Omein, not to tiupcr$l ...de, but to
dcnttc ~impl(' ph)'l'ical eftorn.
The two f)ut."8tjon~ :~ked by one of our mo.~t
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