Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . ens hands rivaling the magicianswildest dreams, which have been accomplished within the lasthundred years. It was recently stated in the Scientific Ameri-can that within this time more advancement has been made inall scientific attainments, and more progress in all that tendsto domestic comfort, the rapid transaction of business amongmen, the transmission of intelligence from one to another, andthe means of rapid transit from place to place and even fromcontinent to continent, than all that was done for three thou-sand years previous, put together. By a
Thoughts on the prophecies of Daniel; . ens hands rivaling the magicianswildest dreams, which have been accomplished within the lasthundred years. It was recently stated in the Scientific Ameri-can that within this time more advancement has been made inall scientific attainments, and more progress in all that tendsto domestic comfort, the rapid transaction of business amongmen, the transmission of intelligence from one to another, andthe means of rapid transit from place to place and even fromcontinent to continent, than all that was done for three thou-sand years previous, put together. By a series of vignettes the artist has given us in the ac-companying plates a birds-eye view of some of the mostwonderful discoveries and marvelous scientific and mechanicalachievements of the present age. In the upper left hand cor-ner of Plate I, we have — 1. The self-binding reaping machine, representing a largoclass of inventions by wiiich the processes of agriculture havebeen revolutionized within the memory of multitudes INCREASE OF KNOWLEDGE, PLATE
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