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advantages of training and equipment and the prospect of 

 the same emoluments as the sterner sex for the products of 

 their brainwork and craftsmanship, then may we expect 

 them to achieve the same distinction in the mechanic arts 

 as has rewarded their efforts in science and literature; 

 and then, too, may we hope to see them once more regain 

 something of that supremacy in invention which was theirs 

 in the early history of our race. 



