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Excerpt from Useful Information for Engineers, Third Series: As Comprised in a Series of Lectures on the Applied Sciences; And on Other Kindred Subjects; Together With Treatises on the Comparative Merits of the Paris and London International Exhibitions, on Roofs, on the Atlantic Cable, and on the Effect of Impact
On these points I have dwelt with more than ordinary intensity, in order to enforce the necessity of accelerated progress in all those attainments which bear upon the moral and intellectual conditions of our daily pursuits.
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