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Excerpt from Life in Brazil, or a Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm: With an Appendix, Containing Illustrations of Ancient South American Arts in Recently Discovered Implements and Products of Domestic Industry, and Works in Stone, Pottery, Gold, Silver, Bronze, &C, The present times are the beginning of a fresh chapter in man's history, and look not unlike the opening of a new epoch in the development of his being. Habi...

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Excerpt from Inorganic Forces Ordained to Supersede Human Slavery This Essay consists of I. Thoughts on Slavery irrespective of its political and moral relations, and II. On the plenitude of the earth's store of cheap inorganic forces for superseding it, and meeting at every stage of progressive civilization fresh demands for agricultural and mechanical motors. I. It may safely he averred that most contentions, political, religious, socia...

Excerpt from The World a Workshop: Or the Physical Relationship of Man to the Earth I am not aware of a single sentiment in the following pages to which the most devout mind can justly except, nor of a thought that is not in harmony with the deepest tone of admiration for the works of God, and with the purest feelings of love and reverence for Him, yet so it is, that kindred subjects are seldom brought forward without awakening opposition in ...

Excerpt from Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Vol. 1 of 5: Ancient and Modern, With Observations on Various SubjectsScience and the arts are renovating the constitution of society. The destiny of nations cannot be much longer held by political gamblers, wealthy dolts, titled buffoons, and royal puppets, these no longer sustained by factitious aids must descend to their own level. Theories of...

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