CHAPTER I. 



MODERN INVENTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS. 



1. THE age in which we live teems with the 

 marvellous inventions of man. The early fruits 

 of these inventions warrant us in anticipating 

 from them, as they advance to maturity, the 

 greatest and most beneficial changes upon so- 

 ciety, art, and commerce, throughout the world. 

 We see Watt's steam-engine, with its gigantic 

 arm, guiding the manufactures of millions along 

 the great highways of the land, and resistlessly 

 conveying the commerce of nations along the 

 greater highway of the deep. We everywhere 

 see our countryman's noble invention regulating 

 the ten thousand looms of our manufactories, 

 ploughing the deep strata of our firm-set soils, 

 reaping the golden grain of our wide-spread 



