The Yazoo City Whig., 1845-06-13
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Years have rolled away, and the vision Of
the tea kettle IS realised.
Talk of political revolutions; they are nos
thing 70 the revolutions of science. Amid
the roar Of conflict which shook Europe,
the ancient Z cynasty b France fell pfostEate,
crumble6 with the ruins Of It's own Bastile.
And now as new bastiles are being crea-I
ted-neW forts eiected the tools with
which tyranny played its game Of yore; the
chains are again clanking onthe people who
once so nobly burst them. But there is no
such reaction in the revolutions of science
The echopfthe CHEEKY hiss of the old teas
ketile, when tie the boy, Watt, sal dTeafn-
inely listening to Il, IS to Be heard in the
loud roar Of the steamspipe, rising often
above the din. of wind and waters, and pro-
claimiHg 10 both that mighty power is bat.
Ting with their ferceness.
Steam has made this old world Of ours 4
new one. ItInakes ocean voyages, pleas
uFe trips; itbinds cities together, literally
with iron bands;it brings Kingdoms into as
close contiguity as parishes. What does it
not do for Services the most mighty
and the most trivial. II hurries him across
the Atlantic in ten days. and grinds coffee
ia gfocers' shops; las power enough e
s.s,s.s1.- ,,r. ualnnaes of Wafer from the bowels
Iof the earth, and deieacY enough 10 drive
a shuttle and weave fiHe linen. Miohtv as
is its strength, the childhood OF inte llect can
guide it. Up and down fy the huge beams
and cylinders with force that hundreds Of
horses would in vain crack sinew and NUS
Gle to control; and yet, LET there be but the
touch of a guiding leVer--the stopping of a
valve demanding no more than child's
strength, and the vast moving fabric at once
becomes motionless and passive -only so
many tons ofwrought and hammered metal.
There is to our thinking, something avs
fully grand in the contemplation of vast
steam engine. Stand amidstits ponderous
beams and bars, wheels and cylinders, and
watch their unceasing plag; how regular and
i how powerfuli-the machinery Of a lady's
4 GeneYa Watch is not more nicely adjusted
l-tIle rush Of the avalanche is not more aw.
fol ~ its strength. Old Gothic Cathedral
laFe solemn places, preaching solemn lessons
touching solemn things; but 10 him VIII
thinks, an engine.foom may preach mor
solemn lesson still Il will tell him Of mini
mind welding matter at its wlll-minl
triumphing over physical difficulties maj
asserting his great supremacg antellec
battling With the elements. And how ex
Iquisitely complete Is every detail! -hol
! isubordinate every part towards the one gres
) Iendl how every little bar and screw
and work together Vast IS the machin,
lei q bolt be but the tenth part of an inc
too long OF too short, and lhe whole fabri
is disoFganized Il IS one complete piee
81 harmony ali iron essay upon unity of q.
sipn and execution There is deep poeti
3 IN the steam engine more Of the poetry !
motion than ii the bound Of al anlelop
d more of the poetry nl POI q than il tie das
b lof & cataract. And oughtit not to be & le
son 10 those who laugh novelties, and pl
no faithin inventions, 20 consider Ibat q
complex fabric this triumph of At ana Sc
ence was once lie aughing>stock ol ice
s inu thousands. and once only the WaklI
pbsntasv 81 boys mind as be sat aud
seeming 1leness watched little column
psncr rise from The spou Of Tee kettle!
Dmffee OF Women to their
Country
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