New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-14
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER A. 1852

has tongue snd describe. the hate, and love, Of man
ana eoquence spoke in the hand Of Franklin a. he
s'sPe" me merry hehtnnss from Heaven. remember
N' pr'ss"ns upon nrstvisnng Cambridge Itsesnei
s' 'He very splTlas OF Newton AMI Hsrschel were
ann 'ha' instead Oh an Observatory" the place
which we were in ought to be called uniysrsitv Sir
Franci. Head declares tbs, he visited
that worked so exquisi,eiy. and was fashca a. mr.
fectly aud worked noiselessly, ,hat im,,i,a,;o,
might have transformed the place into ,srsls dei
Gated by 70 Him who bull, the universe Look a.
this glass the product Of Gin: and soda How intimate
ly connected with taste and refinement and csrryin,
out in so msny ways. the Divine mandate lie. there
be hight e. ard the mechanic has done it. A2plausc |
Pluto is literally transformed into an angel Of light,
was much struck few years ago in visiting wrc,chei
locality very far from here with the fact that cen
tTal in that sad place massive gas light, which
seemed TO be the very Eye of Providence itself search
ing into these dens Of darkness and God seemed TO
have given to the mechanic this Eye Applause.
Do not see if We enter the realm Of the beautiful
arts that Mechanism is rapidly coming into closer con-
tact with the many The Greek Slave of Powers,
and the Madonnas of a Raphael will soon End their
way into the huinblest cottage of land And then
there is Blsnchards turning machine-,hat will turn
anything you want, from statue of St. John to
shoelast Need say that when hear the eratorios
Of Hadyn ought not forget the maker Of the in
struments We must not forget the mechanic, when we
are charmed with the poetry of music And the charms
OF scenery do we not access TO these 10 the
labors Of the mechanic Have not Niagara the
Mississippi, or the White Mountains-ord do we expectto
see Mont Blanc, Mount Hope, or Mount Carmel Do
not depend upon the mechanics for these grs
thcations Surely the beauty Of mechanical artiner
prets the beauty of natural Mechanism The insect
race, how marvellously srrayed and formed they
Shears avis, knives, srpumps, and diving bells
they have them all in profusion Laughter II would
seem as though these little imps had made descent
upon Lilyput. broken open shop and stolen the
instruments. And under such teachers Harvey and
Bell our very pulses become harp-strnss in their
beatings
Go now from the second to the third branch, and
consider the poty of Mechanism in the vasncss of its
powers. The Imagination is always moved by the
vastness of power. Is there something of the
Sublime in the processes and results of the mech mic
srti Look at iron leveling forests, and subduing
waves What is man without the bsckwoodsmsn's axe,
compared with with that axel Look at this and
see what iron has done in our day Is bread the staff
of lfel Twenty of land may now be cultivated
By the same labor that one required few years ago
took one hundred men and one hundred boys TO do.
More potent than the DEGREES of Xerxes the hand Of
science subdues mountains and beats back old Neptune
himself This art carries out the aims of the Creator
as the beneiactor of man. Within century our own
country has ivedten centuries and these few millions
have done the work of hundred years; and
city like this achieves industrial results beyond
those achieved by the empire of the Caesars when
theo world old faba
is realized and the dragons teeth if they DO not
ate men, do the worse ofmen. Who shall speak of the
electric newman compared with whom Ariel Is very
sowi These the Influences which are yet to bring
the Atlantic and the Pacific into proximity which shall
render them like the Siamese Twins feeling the
bestsss of each others hearts The politicians have
said great msny thngs-somc very good ones, and
some very poor ones-about the saving the Union.
The poor Union has been saved great many times.
Laughter But the mechanic has wired it and tied
together so that all the politicians will find difficult to
take 1t apart
Then there is Gum Elastic What wonders is that
not to dor 1t seems to have accommodated itseii,
like the cons ciences Of Of neghbors TO almost
everything [Laughterl Out Of 1 is made the HE
preserver for the little boy who Is first learning to
SWIM and the great bridge over which pass armies
Every man may now be an Argus or BriarBus. For
hands he may have any kind, and as many as he will
Mr. Osgood spoke lastly OF the grandeur OF the des'
tiny of Mechanism remarking that opened new chap
ter in the Pleasures of Hope to which was not possible
now more than TO allude Great things are coming,
surely The romance Of history gives romance to the
common pages of life Mystery is opening all
around US in earth water FIRE The modern Aladdin
now rules with his magic lamp But who will dare to
predict the future, and conjecture how ar Mechanism
shal bring power mani Into this great social ques-
ton we cannot now 60 The various forces are draw
ing nearer together They all meet only in true
civilization which illustrates Gods love.
When the Arts and Sciences. with their strong arms
and sage heads together in true order central
among the vast hosts shall stand the synbo Of Religion
Applause