ADDRESS 



On the Philosophy of Manufactures, delivered at Castle Garden, 

 , Oct. 1849. 



By Thomas Antisell, M. D. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — It is not my intention, upon the present 

 occasion, to occupy you with the usual topics of a general address. 

 Such have generally for their aim, to prove the utility of manufactures 

 in a community, and their value in the economy of time, and of human 

 power. These points have been discussed in previous addresses, and 

 have been so well handled as to make it superfluous to add more: the 

 very existence of this Fair is in itself the best argument which could 

 be produced. 



I prefer occupying your time by dwelling upon some of the varie- 

 ties of the exhibition, and to call your attention to any novelty of in- 

 vention or utility in application of the machinery and manufactures 

 around us, and give way to any reflections which arise naturally out 

 of the circumstances of manufactures. 



The observer who is unaccustomed to behold machinery in motion, 

 feels confused at seeing in the machine room such an endless com- 

 bination of wheels, pulleys, cranks, piston-rods, and levers, and is led 

 to imagine that the study of mechanical powers is one above ordinary 

 conception, and requiring a comprehensive intellect. It is not so j out 

 of half a dozen mechanical powers, as they are termed, is the whole 

 display produced, by their varied apposition, much in the same way 

 as the varied results in Arithmetic are the effect of a varied disposition 

 of the integers. 



