Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Influence of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress: Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University, Providence, R. I., On Commencement Day, September 6, 1843
Gentlemen, excuse me, whilst on an occasion so purely literary, I draw an illustration of this idea from a thought suggested by an invention in a branch of mechanic art.
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