Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1150
horse compares evenmore unfavorably with steam and machinery,while man himself becomes a unit of suchsmall measurement that his efforts are punyindeed. Suppose we select a hard-working laboringman as an example—one whom we call strong and muscular, with body trained to daily toil,so that he could… … in the woods; he can swing the shovel eighthours a day, filling furnaces with coal or dig-ging ditches; or he can plow and harrow withfirm hand and till the soil for crops. Such aman has from the beginning of the world beena mighty power in transforming the face ofnature; but here comes along a…
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