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true that God is beginning to lift from off the drudging world 
that severity of toil whose inevitable eftect is to paralyze the 
intellect and benumb the power of emotion. Labor there must 
be—labor of hand and brain; for this was the law ordained for 
man—labor of the hand for the brain, and of the brain for the 
hand. It must not be exclusively of the one or the other kind. 
1 repeat it, the first great business of the race is to free itself 
from enslavement to bodily needs: and America must lead the 
way. 
Already not a little has been accomplished in this direction. 
Compare the machinery and the processes in our manufactories 
of to-day with those of one hundred years ago — machin¬ 
ery for the cording, spinning, weaving and coloring of fabrics 
of every description—machinery for making nails, pins, knives, 
and every variety of hardware—for cabinet-ware, wagon-work 
and every kind of work in wood—machinery for the number¬ 
less operations of Agriculture; steam-plows, harrows and 
diggers, planters, cultivators and reapers, threshers, winnowers 
and grinders—machinery for locomotion on land and sea, for 
flying in the air, and for whispering around the globe in a 
moment! There, too, are the processes of Chemistry yet more 
wonderful, numberless and useful. 
But all these incalculable advances in the great work of 
lightening the toil, and multiplying the powers of man are the 
products of a better acquaintance with nature. And yet who 
believes that we have more than made a beginning? The 
science of the present is made up of partial facts and fragmen¬ 
tary truths; phenomena which to us are an enigma, in the 
better future of mastered generalizations will astonish our 
children with their simplicity. 
“Subdue the earth !”—there is more in that first command 
of the Almighty than has yet “ been dreamt of in our phil¬ 
osophy/ 5 
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