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scure shop within the precincts of the same Uni- 

 versity. It may seem as if no two departments 

 of human thought are more widely separated than 

 those in which these two men were working. One 

 was a region purely mental. The other was a 

 region purely physical. The one had reference to 

 the Laws of Matter. The other had reference to 

 the Laws of Mind. Yet the work of James Watt 

 and, the work of Adam Smith were inseparately 

 connected, not only as involving analogous methods 

 of investigation, but as showing in their result the 

 blending and co-operation of mental and material 

 laws. 



It was the labour of Watt to reduce to 

 obedience, under the power of Mind, one of the 

 most tremendous Forces of Nature, and this he 

 did through many years of curious inquiry, and 

 of laborious contrivance. He found only a rude 

 and imperfect mechanism through which this great 

 Force had been misdirected and dissipated and 

 lost. He collected it in fitter vessels; he led it 

 into smoother channels ; he opened for it doors 

 of passage, through which the rushing of its 

 escape did for him what he wanted it to do. 



