New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-05
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER B. 1875
present to an advancing civilization tnan
deplore the malignant purposes in'o
which they are sometimes tortured.

present to an advancing civilization than
deplore the malignant purposes INTO
which they are sometimes tortured.
Even the kindly art of printing has
been greatly abused, bat what patriot OF
publicist. in view of the infamous pub
LEGATIONS effected though its agency, would
desire that art to be numbered with the
lost? Though tyrants may make the
press an instrument to minister to their
expressions, and bad men in private lite
pervert it to the basest Of purposes, w
for the good it has done aad is still dAns
for the world we must call down bbSslnes
on the heads of the German scholars anu
workers who thought out sAo "rooen'
out the great plan by wbsh ideas took
form. and from the west were easily
transmitted to the aumblest. Chiefly
through this agenc-t that ignorance which
darkened the log night OF the middle
apes with mre than Cimmerian gloom
was swept p~ay as with the glow OF
new cres4ve dawn, not altogether un-
worthy. should we compare the finite
with tie Infinite, with that exhibition OF
Almighty power which followed the first
s,olime command, "Let there be light"
For all great inventions, Heaven-in-
spired as they must have been, with
which we have been blessed during the
past few ages, and especially for those OF
the last half century, we can never be too
deeply grateful. Hoods "Song Of the Shirt"
would scarce be possibility in these
times, while tho stage coach is quite
among the things that were, SO complete
iy has the "stitch, stitch, stitch" Of the
one been superseded by the sewing ma
chine, and the slow, numbering rumble OF
the other by the rapid transit across coun-
tries and continents by the lightning ex-
press"
Our theme, the romance Of invention,
is so suggestive that the subject swells as
We advance, aud we find that to conclude
is almost as difficult as it was to COM
mence. We started forth with the idea
that invention had unfortunately been
only too tributary to the arts of war, but
while this has lamentably been the case
with almost every discovery whereby the
labor of man has been sinplifed and
and his comforts increased,
still there are many inventions besides the
sewing machine which are mainly useful
and beneficial. Among these we may
mention the various improved implements
of agriculture-the reaper, the mower, the
raker, the sower, the thresher, which has
taken the place of the primitive fail, and
the whole list of inventions and improve
ments which have SO completely revolu-
tionized the calling of the farmer and the
skilled training of the artisan, and have
relieved the day laborer from the heavy
burdens which the ruder machinery of the
past forced upon his unaided shoulders.
LILO ALSC0loAo tACACAOIC, Dccu tu0
oenefactors of our race, even though their
works at times are employed for the pur-
pose of harvesting dragons teeth. At |
present all Europe, and great part of |
Asia, appear to stand on the perilous
.dge of battle, and through the aid of the
INVENTORS they may be enabled to fight it
,ut to a more bloody an l speedy con-
lasion; yet because this is the case we
re not to condemn inventions the main
endency of which is peaceful and benes
icent Even down to the latest scientific
riumph of "Old Probabilities, low
soever his failures in forecast
ng calculations, there exists promise
f an ultimate dominion over the elements
'hich was not even dreamed of two CEN
uries ago.
The romance of invention is prolific
heme, veritable history. We have in
bis paper not touched upon 1.-THE of its
1arvels, but will return to it again when
. a more prolific mood.