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fields with the mail bag, or upon the fish oil lamp for
light, or the sailboat and stage coach for transportation,
or the scythe for garnering the harvests, or upon the
needle for all work in fashionable garments?
Every machine means emancipation for the mind
of man.
I have not been stirred by anything in the world
of art more powerfully than I was stirred by the first
sight of the steam sweeper. What freedom for woman
lies in that invention once it becomes universal, as
it will!
Woman is slow to avail herself of the benefits of
man's inventive genius. She is inclined to drag along
in the old grooves, saying the old-fashioned methods
are good enough for her; but she is in the path of
progress, and she is too sensible to be ground under
its wheels. The day will come when all sweeping,
washing, ironing, dish cleansing and other menial labor
will be accomplished by the mere direction of a
machine, and the beautiful hours of beautiful days
will not be spent in back-breaking and mind-monopolizing rounds of ever-recurring labor.
If any man ever went to the almshouse because of
the advent of machinery, it was owing to his own lack
of foresight and perseverance.
Temporarily, indeed, the individual may suffer
from loss of his accustomed occupation; but if he
keeps his mind alert and his eye open and his heart
courageous, he will find new paths leading from the
new inventions which offer ten-fold the opportunities
for success offered by the old.
The railroad will serve as an example.
Where a score of men in a locality were driven
out of business by the abandonment of the stage
