Emerson's complete works . d road-side, in the shop and mill. Pro--ceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a di^vine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company ; our law, our primary assemblies.;our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric jar.^the prism, and the chemists retort; in which weseek now only an economical use. Is not the self-ish and even cruel aspect which belongs to ourgreat mechanical works, to mills, railways, andmachinery, the effect of the mercenary impulseswhich these works obey? When its errands arenoble and adequate, a steamboat bridging t
Emerson's complete works . d road-side, in the shop and mill. Pro--ceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a di^vine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company ; our law, our primary assemblies.;our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric jar.^the prism, and the chemists retort; in which weseek now only an economical use. Is not the self-ish and even cruel aspect which belongs to ourgreat mechanical works, to mills, railways, andmachinery, the effect of the mercenary impulseswhich these works obey? When its errands arenoble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the At-lantic between Old and New England and arrivingat its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is astep of man into harmony with nature. The boatat St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena bymagnetism, needs little to make it sublime. Whenscience is learned in love, and its powers arewielded by love, they will apj^ear the supplementsand continuations of the material creation. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 9999 05495 500 8. V ^Id^St^ /
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