The Difference Between A Tool And A

The Successful Construction Of All Machinery Depends On The Perfection Of The Tools Employed; And Whoever Is A Master In The Arts Of Tool-making Possesses The Key To The Construction Of All Machines... The Contrivance And Construction Of Tools Must Therefore Ever Stand At The Head Of The Industrial Arts.

It Is Difficult To Estimate The Misery Inflicted Upon Thousands Of Persons, And The Absolute Pecuniary Penalty Imposed Upon Multitudes Of Intellectual Workers By The Loss Of Their Time, Destroyed By Organ-grinders And Other Similar Nuisances.

To Those Who Have Chosen The Profession Of Medicine, A Knowledge Of Chemistry, And Of Some Branches Of Natural History, And, Indeed, Of Several Other Departments Of Science, Affords Useful Assistance.

If We Define A Miracle As An Effect Of Which The Cause Is Unknown To Us, Then We Make Our Ignorance The Source Of Miracles! And The Universe Itself Would Be A Standing Miracle. A Miracle Might Be Perhaps Defined More Exactly As An Effect Which Is Not The Consequence Or Effect Of Any Known Laws Of Nature.

It Can Happen To But Few Philosophers, And But At Distant Intervals, To Snatch A Science, Like Dalton, From The Chaos Of Indefinite Combination, And Binding It In The Chains Of Number, To Exalt It To Rank Amongst The Exact. Triumphs Like These Are Necessarily 'few And Far Between.'