The Half Minute Which We Daily Devote

In Mathematical Science, More Than In All Others, It Happens That Truths Which Are At One Period The Most Abstract, And Apparently The Most Remote From All Useful Application, Become In The Next Age The Bases Of Profound Physical Inquiries, And In The Succeeding One, Perhaps, By Proper Simplification And Reduction To Tables, Furnish Their Ready And Daily Aid To The Artist And The Sailor.

An Object Is Frequently Not Seen, From Not Knowing How To See It, Rather Than From Any Defect Of The Organ Of Vision.

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.

The Triumph Of The Industrial Arts Will Advance The Cause Of Civilization More Rapidly Than Its Warmest Advocates Could Have Hoped, And Contribute To The Permanent Prosperity And Strength Of The Country Far More Than The Most Splendid Victories Of Successful War.

Perhaps The Most Important Principle On Which The Economy Of A Manufacture Depends, Is The Division Of Labour Amongst The Persons Who Perform The Work.