In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.