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me with an old one: for of all the stimulants to 

 deeper thought in your own mind, what so powerful 

 as the sustained effort to develope your earlier 

 conceptions by the slow and detailed process of con- 

 versation, and that with a not too easy orunobjective 

 listener ? Idle and valueless as yet, as the unsmelted 

 Ore, is the Thought that has not been struck out into 

 the current coin of simple words. And this once 

 accomplished, who shall say where that currency may 

 lead, or in whose hands it may yet thrive, hereafter ? 



' Steam-power, no more to do with the Plough than a Horse has 

 do with a Spade.' 



