REMARKS RESPECTING UTILITY, ETC. 233 



department of the business, in the chapter on "Articles for the 

 preservation of Hfe and property." 



The inventor would here appeal to mankind in general, by- 

 affirming that there is no real necessity for such constant loss of 

 life and property, by the sea and waters, as annually occurs. 

 A proper investigation and public trial of the articles proposed, 

 by a competent commission appointed for the purpose, will 

 demonstrate the truth of what is here stated. What! must 

 men continue to be drowned because their fathers were! must 

 treasures continue to go to the bottom of the deep because there 

 are offices where they can be insured ! The loss to the world 

 on that account is none the less, and such a state of things in 

 the present age need not, and ought not, to exist. 



The articles classed as educational, by which the cause of 

 education may be materially advanced, as well as those belong- 

 ing to the medical department, whereby suffering humanity may 

 be relieved in numerous ways, deserve especial notice ; and it is 

 to be hoped that at no distant day the public mind will be roused 

 to apprehend the importance of these inventions, and that when 

 duly appreciated, the manufacture will be prosecuted, either by 

 individual or public enterprise, with capital and energies com- 

 mensurate with their importance. Nor is there any good reason 

 to doubt that the manufacture of these classes of goods might be 

 made a source of profit to those engaged in the manufacture, as 

 well as a benefit to mankind. 



