Do they reject the use for their own persons, their families, in their homes, or in connection with any of the relations of life, of anything and everything produced, in whole or in part, by the application of steam power to machinery ?
But it may be asked whether the philosophical poets and poetical philosophers wear the jewel of consistency.  Do they reject the use for their own persons, their families, in their homes, or in connection with any of the relations of life, of anything and everything produced, in whole or in part, by the application of steam power to machinery ?  A relapse into a state of nature is the only manner in which they can prove their consistency !