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Книга по требованию: The Western Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2

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A Continuation of the Illinois Monthly Magazine; From January to December, 1834 (Classic Reprint)

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Год издания: 2015
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Excerpt from The Western Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2: A Continuation of the Illinois Monthly Magazine; From January to December, 1834

Some striking remarks, coming from abler pens, will unavoidably present themselves as too valuable to be lost sight of here, and will therefore be quoted as they may occur in the course of our progress.

Mechanical contrivances have ever been among the first germs of civilization.

Every people ignorant of the mechanic arts have existed in a rude state, and have been very partially, if at all civilized; but wherever those arts have been introduced, they have uniformly given an impetus to civilization and refinement. However rude in their origin, they are effectually calculated to develop the reasoning faculties of man, and unfold the mental capabilities of our nature. The man engaged in mechanical contrivances has difficulties to overcome, and he must think - his inventive faculty is employed and the ingenuity of his mind brought into action. His intellect is under constant discipline, and he acquires quickness of discernment: he learns the adaptation of means to the attainment of an end; and hence, in the physical universe, intelligence is thus brought to assume the direction, and the circumstances around us are subjected to the empire of reason.

In the progress of society, art is antecedent to science. Until recent times, the arts were entrenched in technicalities and mysteries. Shut out from the lights of science, they were conducted mostly by men uninformed and illiterate; and their improvements depended, consequently, on the uncertain operations of chance. Under such circumstances their advancement was slow, and their attainment more difficult. Without any rational principles for their foundation, they were, in their most perfect state but empirical, until science became their handmaid, and paved a way to them broad and beaten. How many laborious and costly experiments - how much toil and thought would not the knowledge of a single scientific principle frequently have saved the experimenter in his search after new combinations and new adaptations of art! What treasure - what time and genius have not been expended, in every country, on the inquiry after 'perpetual motion:' a condition of matter which is inconsistent with the laws of gravitation.

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