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Mechanism

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
April
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dr. Oville Dewey ihuscourses oí the benefits of niechaeism to llie human race: "There is one power then, much misapprehended, seemingly inert, at most material, which is helping and heaving the world onward, and tbat is the power of mechanisme - Promotive of human comfort, knowledge and wtercourse, diffusing these blessings beyond 11 formcr exnmple, it must be a power for good - a power friendly to justice, freedom and 'happiiess. It is a power without pass ions; it works with thecertainty of fate; and it ia a lever etrong enough lo lift the world. In the war of opinión, we hcar of many ob ptacles, many foes to the right, to justice and freedom. We hold the locomotive steam engine alone to be an argument good against thetn all, It is a baítering ram to beat down all the barriera, of cnste, of proscriplion and oppres8ion. But it will not beat down alone; it will bear through the breaches it makee, Jcnowledge and comfort over the wide reahus within. It islike the wheel in Ezekiel1 vision, ay, a wheel in the midst of a wheel; and , -m Jooked and behold,' says the prophet, a great cloud, and a fire uñfolding itself, atid a rtghtness was about it ; and it ran and returíied as the appearance of a flash of lightning.' The locomotive engine is the very type and ful filment of the promise, that 'many hall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be ncreased."'

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News