The Principles of Science Applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts: And to Manufactures and Agriculture: with Reflections on the Progress of the Arts, and Their Influence on National WelfareMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1841 - 432 páginas |
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... animal . Left , therefore , to his bodily powers , man would be , of all animals , one of the most defenceless and wretched . The story of Robinson Crusoe shows , in a striking manner , with what difficulty he maintains even life , when ...
... animal . Left , therefore , to his bodily powers , man would be , of all animals , one of the most defenceless and wretched . The story of Robinson Crusoe shows , in a striking manner , with what difficulty he maintains even life , when ...
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... animals , to his natural re- sources ; and the picture which he gives , of the extrem- ities to which he was quickly reduced , by hunger , by the torturing stings of insects , the terror of wild beasts , and the impossibility of tracing ...
... animals , to his natural re- sources ; and the picture which he gives , of the extrem- ities to which he was quickly reduced , by hunger , by the torturing stings of insects , the terror of wild beasts , and the impossibility of tracing ...
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... animal world , it is the same . All domestic animals , whether used for food , service , or pleas- ure , " have sprung from a few wild and unattractive species , and have been made what they are , in a great degree , by the intervention ...
... animal world , it is the same . All domestic animals , whether used for food , service , or pleas- ure , " have sprung from a few wild and unattractive species , and have been made what they are , in a great degree , by the intervention ...
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... curing . But there is surely little more quackery , in attempting to treat an animal system , of the nature of which we are igno- rant , than there is in undertaking to manage inanimate 22 THE ARTS DEPENDENT ON SCIENCE .
... curing . But there is surely little more quackery , in attempting to treat an animal system , of the nature of which we are igno- rant , than there is in undertaking to manage inanimate 22 THE ARTS DEPENDENT ON SCIENCE .
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... animals , in strength and agility , man becomes their superior , by means of the Arts . II . These Arts are , in the first instance , suggested by necessity ; afterwards , they are improved by Science . III . The application of Science ...
... animals , in strength and agility , man becomes their superior , by means of the Arts . II . These Arts are , in the first instance , suggested by necessity ; afterwards , they are improved by Science . III . The application of Science ...
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Página 275 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Página 394 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended the range of the K/man vision; it has multiplied the power of the human...
Página 346 - ... as well lodged as the lord of the town : so well were they contented. Pillows, they said, were thought meet only for women in childbed : as for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well : for seldom had they any under their bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws, that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Página 350 - C two hundred thousand people begging from door to door^ These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of...
Página 394 - The business of a philosopher was to declaim in praise of poverty, with two millions sterling out at usury, to meditate epigrammatic conceits about the evils of luxury, in gardens which moved the envy of sovereigns, to rant about liberty, while fawning on the insolent and pampered...
Página 393 - Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories ; in attempts to solve insoluble enigmas j in exhortations to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind.
Página 362 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed.
Página 27 - In 1826, a steam-loom weaver, about 15 years of age, attending to two looms, could weave twelve similar pieces in a week; some could weave fifteen pieces. In 1833, a steam-loom weaver, from...