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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Uncertainties of History: Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of the United States, Before the Capitol Hill Institute, December 17, 1842
Nor can any now, after careful re?ection, deny the utility of ma chinery, by which the labor of millions is yearly saved or added, however many individuals may at first have been thrown out of employment by its introduction, and however deep the doubts and darkness may yet rest over the inventors of the plough, the loom, the axe, or the graceful ship-inventors as distinguished in their day, and of machinery as important to the welfare of mankind, as Whitney and the cotton-gin, or Arkwright and the spinning-jenny.
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