The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-04-30
wHATHAs INDUSTRY DONE FOR MANKIND.

The question might almost be, what has it not
done? It enabled the first savages to make the
flint knives the stone axes and mortars, the bows
arrows, spears Sings harnoons, nets boats. nuts,
fire sticks. and digging sticks, (the earliest imple
meats of tllage(, without which they could not
have raised themselves above the level Of a brute
enabled the stOne-age savages to smelt upper,
and tin to unite them in a hard elastic alloy tit
for swords, spear heads, arrow-heads, helmets,
t-platep, shields, chisels. hoes. points
hammers, axes, and knives. Then, AMI not until
hen, did men have durable dwelling of cut stone
productive Of tillige with the capacity to main
o. CARNATIONS, lave, well disciplined armies, sys?
tenatic policy, religion, and ornamental at Sew
eral thousand years elapsed before the beneficial
Industrial spirit, which had first taught the sauages
to fashion tools Of stone aud then elevated him to
the bronze age, raised him the age ofror by teach
ing him TO smelt, forge, temper and weld che most
useful Of all metals. If the useful arts had done
| pothing tor man but to teach him how to work
stone, bronze, aid iron, they would deserve the
credit OF laying the indispensable foundation OF
lit our culture, and thus doing more for us than
ny other branch of human employment has done
| but their service did not cease here 1t has on
tinued and still continues with Increasing benjf-
cence. II we should divide culture into dolen
eras instead 90 OILY into the stone, bronze, and
iron ages, we should have to designate nearly all
of them from industrial events. The sailng-ves-
| sci, the mold-bcard which turns over the furrow
of the pillow, the wateI- Wheel the magnetic needle,
vunpowdcr, the pa per.mil movable type, the
mir uuyhpn fni hn mir
the quadrant the chrynometer. the steam -englue,
| the steamboat, the steam-railr0ad. the steam
slast In smelling furnaces, the pudding furnace,
the rolling mill, aud abor-saving machinery vi
| thousand kinds these are triumphs oil industry,
and the main csusee of the superiority of mOdern
over ancient civilization II is the working man,
NOT the soldier, the priest, the statesman, .ne
philos CIPHER, the scientist, the artist nor Int
author, who has given us no only the foudau n
but lso most OF the super structure, OF our cul-
| tnre
and yet there are men who tel US tina our age
Ia ''too materiaistc, - that.it s not SO spiTitua
as past centuries were that the coarser are SUI
fiji e the finer etments of our nature; ana that
philosophy, religion, and aesthetics are 10 danger
Of being crushed out by science and machinery.
| These anaChronistic complaints have come town
10 Us from remote time they We've nred In the
ancient aid mmedieval school Is. and their mil de
were Mortified when they left college; they nave
not caught the spirit OF our tim T. dD not unoef-
stand It and are literally hostile to It, They are
amilIar with hundred gods and heroes % oTe-
clan mythology but have calcely heard OF the
heroes and demigods OF modern INDUSTRY The
names OF COrt, Nelson, Nasmyth, artwright.
| CT compton, Tennent Sennefeder, and Trevethick
are strange to their ears. They remember those
of Watt, Aargreaves, A1kwright. Whitney
Stephenson, and Fulton, but have no clear idea OF
what any OF them did for progress The mention
of the iron molf- board the puddind-furnace, and
the hot-blast, suggested TO them no great service
to hsmanity. They may have heard Oh & iron
rms do far m re work than all human muscles,
but the vast important OF the fact for the present,
and Ire overwhelming significance for the future,
make no impression on their brains. Their eye
are turn, backward, not for ward They are Ia
menting the time when Plato taus hit in the acade
my, or vine Peterthe Hermit mustered hi- crusa-
dsrs for the Holy Land. They cam ct zee that,as
irdus rial art has given us the high intellectual
give va silly h.g her one for the next.