 | 1846 - 774 Seiten
...and microscope. Instead of ten thousand flngers, He has given us genius inventive of the power-loom and the printing press. Without a cultivated intellect, man is among the weakest of all the dymamic forces of nature; with a cultivated intellect, he commands them all. A thousand slaves may... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1848 - 68 Seiten
...of ten thousand fingers, he has given us genius inventive of the power-loom and the printing-press. Without a cultivated intellect, man is among the weakest...of the intellect, and uses only the weak, degraded, and half animated forces of the human limbs. A thousand slaves may stand by a river, and to them it... | |
 | 1849 - 620 Seiten
...us genius inventive of the power-loom and the printing-press. Without a cultivated intellect, man is the weakest of all the dynamical forces of nature; with a cultivated intellect he commands them all. ' A thousand slaves may stand by a river, and to them it is only an object of fear and superstition.... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 592 Seiten
...He would have given us lungs by which we could blow fleets before us, and wings to sweep over ocean wastes. But, instead of iron arms, and Atlantean shoulders,...intellect, he commands them all. And now, what does the slave maker do ? He abolishes this mighty power of the intellect, and uses only the weak, degraded,... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 Seiten
...He would have given us lungs by which we could blow fleets before us, and wings to sweep over ocean wastes. But, instead of iron arms, and Atlantean shoulders,...intellect, he commands them all. And now, what does the slave maker do ? He abolishes this mighty power of the intellect, and uses only the weak, degraded,... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 Seiten
...and microscopic eye, he has given us power to invent the telescope and the microscope. Instead often thousand fingers, he has given us genius inventive...intellect, he commands them all. And now, what does the slave maker do ? He abolishes this mighty power of the intellect, and uses only the weak, degraded,... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - 1853 - 282 Seiten
...Instead of ten thousand fingers, he has given us genius inventive of the power-loom and printing-press. Without a cultivated intellect, man is among the weakest...with a cultivated intellect, he commands them all." — Horace Mann. forces of Nature first brought into use were the most gross, material, and, therefore,... | |
 | William Valentine - 1856 - 302 Seiten
...thousand fingers, He has given us genius inTontivc of thi) power loom and printing press. Without s cultivated intellect, man is among the weakest of all the dynamical forces of nature ; with s, oultivated intellect he commands them oil " ' SPEECH OF LOT DOOLITTLE, ON THE BILL FOR THE PROTECTION... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 Seiten
...of ten thousand fingers, He has given us genius inventive of the power-loom and the printing-press. Without a cultivated intellect, man is among the weakest...with a cultivated intellect, he commands them all. Nor are these advantages confined to those departments of nature where her mightiest forces are brought... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - 1868 - 274 Seiten
...Instead of ten thousand fingers, he has given us genius inventive of the power-loom, and printing-press. Without a cultivated intellect, man is among the weakest...with a cultivated intellect, he commands them all." — Horace Mann. forces of Nature first brought into use were the most gross, material, and, therefore,... | |
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Boreas, he has given us a mind, a soul, a capacity of acquiring knowledge, and thus of appropriating all these energies of nature to our own use. Instead of a telescopic and microscopic eye, he has given us power to invent the telescope and the microscope.... 