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and that it was through such means that the material was to 
be reached and elevated. That the laws of Mechanics were 
the laws of the universe in dimuendo! and that the hatreds, 
the oppressions, the crimes, the monstrosities 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 
cultivate the spiritual by the aid of machinery !—of rail-roads, 
canals, &.! 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 !—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! We have 
conquered the elements and made them our slaves !—how 
slow they carry us! We want to rein the law that governs 
spheres ! 
“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!” 
She placed her hands upon her eyes, and they looked very 
thin and feeble! 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 God may reveal 
himself in Mechanics! as well as by other revelations,—and 
the children of Eve be thus released from all slavery !” 
