MATTER, MEASURE. 



ties displayed by the mechanical properties or contriv- 

 ances built by him, that he gauged them to do a certain 

 amount of work. We will grant that he did gauge them 

 to do a certain amount of \vork, and in addition we will 

 grant that he was correct in gauging. Then the real 

 question has arisen owing to his gauging same and 

 knowing how to gauge same. Was it a knowledge of 

 another form of life he possessed? How did man find 

 out how much work the horse could do? How did he 

 find out how much work the dog could do? How did 

 man find out how much work the man could do? How 

 did he find out how much work he himself could do? 

 Then granting that he found out all these points by 

 studying the natures of the other forms of life. Still 

 there is another question more momentous than either 

 of the others. How did each of these animals find out 

 how much they each could do in themselves? How did 

 the dog find out how much he could do? How did the 

 other man find out how much he could do? How did 

 me horse find out how much he could do? 



Then last, but not least, how did that wagon find 

 out how much it could do, and how was it that it noti- 

 fied man through speech that he was over-loading it, 

 before he, as \vise as he appears to be, found it out? 



We may answer all the questions in a few words. 

 Alan found out how much work all kinds of animals 

 could do through studying them in their habits and 

 trials. He found out how much work the matter of 

 all kinds was capable of doing through study of same, 

 but was unwilling to attribute life to any of them. But 



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