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gradually work out that great revolution whose full extent can 
already be perceived. Shall I dare to tell men of science my inimost 
thought? They themselves will have an advantage in possessing 
always at hand these objects of study under so convenient a form 
and in enlarged proportions, which greatly diminish the fatigue 
of attention. A thousand objects, which seem to us different 
because different in size, recover their analogies, and reappear 
in their true relative forms, through the simple process of enlarge- 
ment. 
America, I may add, appears more keenly sensible of these advan- 
tages than we are. An American speculator had desired M. Auzoux 
to supply him yearly with two thousand copies of his figure of man, 
being certain of disposing of them in all the small towns, and even in 
the villages. Every American village, says M. Auzoux, endeavours 
to obtain a museum, an observatory, &e. 
Page 157. The suppression of pain.—To prevent death is 
undoubtedly impossible ; but we may prolong life.) We may even- 
tually render rarer, less cruel, and almost suppress pain. 
That the hardened old world laughs at this expression is so much 
the better. We have seen this spectacle in the days when our 
Kurope, barbarized by war, centred all medical art in surgery, and 
only knew how to cure by the knife by a horrible prodigality of 
suffering, young America discovered the miracle of that profound 
dream in which all pain is annihilated.* 
* Our author refers to the discovery of the anzsthetic properties of ether by an 
American. It was a surgeon of old Europe, however, that gave the world the far more 
powerful anesthetic of chloroform.—Translator. 
