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wise one and it will not be strange If it is pres
.ntly adoptesl by the whole Of France
NtyfUN or UECHiNICIiNS.

AIIION VI HE' HiN'' '-'-''.'
Mr. Hiram = Maxim. who is himself an "X-
collcni specimen of the inventive Ahsio-SdAo"'
attributes the triumph ot the American navy
in Manila Bay and of Santiago 10 superior
s,ju ~ mechanic arts. In THE Engineering
Naqoziun" he points out that the modern war
shin is full Of complicated machinery 'h"'
,merlcans understand how 10 max" anu man
AGE such things and that the SpahaFn' w
not Had Ccrvcras vessels been III 'nt ha"u'
of German English or Yankee Engineers '''!
would. in Mr. Maxims judgment. nave ueNcI
oped the full spced with which ih'y WERE Wv"
tied in Spanish hands. On tie contrary e'ci!
thing was neglected. The hulls h'calhe iou'.
the boilers got out of order the S'oh'rS '"''i'
moi keep up the steam pressure anu :" "Ni'
II knots or H. knots were made ihs'cad " ~
knots. "Hand-to-hand Sca-hghtlhS j. Il '"'"-
..of the past" says Mr.. Maxim NAVAL pa''"'
"are encinecrin: conflicts between machiheS'
land the man who understands these liia'Hh'H
thc best is sure 10 win rho Spahiard J.
nronounccd brave honest and glit'd III "''
and literature by this critic. hut he htdS MN
deficient ia that passionate love Oi hP'h'hi'>
which anmates multitude Of Americans. lh'
undcpjablp truth that is here cxpounded mas
hoen recognized and expressed before. III me
introdu,tion to his Outlines of In" Earth
History the grologiSt Shalcr remarks: All
",,cnce had it's origin. and almost all us d"-
"vclopmcnt among the peoples belonging 10
.,h ,rror race Thus while the spirit
"of science in general tx limited 20 the Aryah
folk, the particular par, of the motive when
.leods to the invention of tools Is restricted 10
"Wcstcrrl and Northern Europe. 10 INC people
.to whom we give the name Of Tcutonr.
Professor Shalcr does not aTp'ify the idea
bu, the most casual retrospect iuSlhcS ms as
scrtion Tho Greeks the chief representatives
Of the Aryan stock in Southern Europe twenty
and t,ycnty-Iivc centuries ago. conceived mat
the earth WIS clohc. PythagoraS was the
rco, author Of the Copcrnican theory of The
planetary system; Euclid taught tho world
practically al il knows of geometry. and Arch
modes gave lis the lover and other valuable
mechanical devices. Coming down to NOR"
recent times and regarding only The phhoSoph'
ical side of the subject one notes that II was
Newton who developed the law Of gravitaion
Faraday who gave rs the fundamental prln-
cinl,s of magnetism that are embodied IN the
DYNAMO Maxwell who originated the electro
magnetic theory of light long before Hertz CON
frmod il. and louie who first formulated the
great TACT Ill1l I0INt - 'liiH-'f'''' ~
ton. hut indcStructiblc.
Then. in the field Of practical invention
Watts leads off with the stcam-rneine. ana
Cartwright with the power loom. Germany
contributed the printing press and >p"riro-
sconc to tho worlds stock OF useful apparatus.
The hrthplaccs Of the microscope and t"le-
scope are obscure. Holland seems to hav" been
foremost in hn use of tho former. ana Den
mari; in the manufacture of tho latter But
England did more than any other country 10
uerfcci them both Young n u j.. America
has already achieved tho telegraph. telephone
phonograph threshing and sowing machines,
and nnmberless minor mechanical 'riunphs.
The norfpcting of the dynamo ana electric
motor was carried on Jointly by America Eng
land and Germany.
This talk of Maxim and Shalcr. however.
has a sill wider application TO American su"-
cess IN pence than In war. II VIII ala us
greatly to realize our ambition for Industrial
DEVELOPMENT aud commercial expansion u ""
studiously cultivate mechanical and inveniiv"
SIKH. and keep wachful eye on the two coun-
trIes which because OF their klnship 10 Us mr."
most likely 10 prove our Formidable competitors
in foreign markets.