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work under the application of drive works of a still higfher order. We 

 also turn a chemical tension work, the gas or chemical engine, as the 

 Americans call it, which acts instantaneously upon the water being used. 

 In the last case the drive work connected with the water is of a very 

 low order; this furnishes an example of the manner in wliich drive 

 works contest for the same intended motion and seek each to gain for 

 itself the palm in lessening the number of drive works, that is, the 

 height of the order number. Everywhere it is tlie manganistical 

 thought, the manganistical principle whereby we in part preserve, in 

 part make easier, in part defend our life, and whereby we also advance 

 annihilatiugly against others. 



Onr industries, finally, which produce as well the necessities as the 

 manganistical mechanisms, what have they not brought about for cul- 

 ture advancement by means of this same manganistical principle ? Here 

 let us venture a little nearer by attempting to apply a measure. 



Coal serves us as an essential assistant in manganistical labor. This is 

 now obtained in an abundance of over 400,000,000 tons, the greater part 

 annually converted to industrial purposes. Tliesurplus above 400,000,000 

 tons suffices to cover heating necessities. So we have for each, of the 

 300 working days of the year one and one-third million tons of coal, 

 which are used for chemical, mechanical, and physical-technical pur- 

 poses. If we sum up the entire labor arrived at therewith for the sake 

 of the survey of dynamical execution, the results under this acceptation 

 of uses of coal show 1| kilograms for horse-power in a working day of 

 12 hours, i. e., 4i tons per hour during the year, together with the horse. 

 A horse-power, in round numbers, of 90,00i),OU0, statistical numbers and 

 taxes, in fact, would in dynamics yield 20,000,000. For every horse- 

 power must be reckoned the working force of six strong men, which 

 results in 540,000,000 active man-power during a day of 12 hours. It 

 is this powerful executive force which the 250,000,000 of Atlantic na- 

 tions entirely alone (since the other 1,250,000,000 of naturists have 

 added nothing to it) have accomplished by man through the mangan- 

 istical principle! When we consider that every tenth one of the 

 1,250,000,000 men exerts daily such labor as before contemplated, prob- 

 ably a much too high estimate, there results an execution of 125,000,000 

 man-power. We Atlantic peoples, a sixth of the earth's inhabitants, 

 perform by our manganistic labor more than four times as much as 

 those can execute. The superiority of the manganist over the naturist 

 is attained and reimbursed through useful labor, and thereby also 

 reaches, taken only humanly, its right. This so much the more as our 

 labor execution is transmitted to each of them. I speak of the great, 

 entire development, and not perhaps of its still existing deficiencies, to 

 the extension and under the extension of culture and civilization. 



So, then, has scientific technology become the bearer of culture, the 

 powerful, tireless laborer in the service of civilization and cultivation 

 of the races of men, and promises for a long future to add a line of 

 greater results than is at present attained. 



