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and that it was throngli such means that the material vas to 

 be reached and elevated. That the laws of Mechanics were 

 the laws of the nniverse in dimuendo ! and that the hatreds, 

 the oppressions, the crimes, the monstrosiries of our social 

 system, were only to be reached through Mechanics ! The 

 law of order was supreme, and this law required a material 

 medium. Mankind was only to be emancipated into leisure to 

 cultirate the spiritual by the aid of machinery ! — of rail-roads, 

 canals, ic. ! Then the working classes would have leisure, 

 leisure to think and feel ; leisure to cultivate the arts ; to 

 make the flowers grow ! 



" But, yet, as he taught, they need a higher Mechanics ! 

 They have steam, and air and electricity, — ^they have appro- 

 priated the water and the gasses, — brutes, minerals, vegeta- 

 tion, — all 1 — but one Power ! superior to them all ! 



" The law of gravitation is the law of labor, of life, and of 

 progress ! This great law remains to be conquered ! TVe hare 

 conquered the elements and made them our slaves 1 — how 

 slow they carry us I TVe want to rein the law that governs 

 spheres I 



" He was making the audacious attempt ! He overwhelmed 

 me with the calm profundity of his knowledge — he dazzled me 

 in a very different sense from that first dazzle, which was 

 delirious, and simply, simple I" 



She placed her hands upon her eyes, and they looked very 

 thin and feeble 1 A shudder passed through her frame. She 

 muttered : — 



" He dared attempt the '■perpetual motion,' and I dedicated 

 my life to him — but more to the great thought ! We came 

 apart from civilization, and made us a home here by the 

 unaided labor of our own hands. Here he has worked and 

 I have slaved, to the mighty thought that G-od may reveal 

 himself in Jlechanics ! as well as by other revelations, — and 

 the children of Eve be thus released from all slavery!" 



