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this prelude, yet on second thought may come the realization that there are here dreamers of dreams. Men visioning the impalpable - the stuff of which dreams are made* So appearing to others but not to themselves. Inspira- tion - mayhap you will have it - leading up to the problem, as is the wont to term, and whioh in the solution to the point of demonstration of practicability, is the same actuating spirit voiced long ago by Trevithiok - bhe being useful in the day and generation. His day and generation were far different. him and his contemporaries there was no blazed way. blazed it for you. To They Nevertheless there were gleams of light shed in the wilderness, as it were, before the locomotive was born. A dreamland in whioh steam was the atmosphere breathed by those visioning its subjection as the most potent of agencies for the world's advancement. As through a glass darkly was the mind's eye on the will-o'-the-wisp so elusive that on-lookers long viewed it a veritable wild goose chase. Newton, the same Sir Isaac who primarily brought to our attention the fact that "what goes up must oome down on your head or on the ground** was also the foremost to vision the governing of movement the reverse of the perpendicular, that is to say, the horizontal. He saw in the gen- eration of steam what none other had to that time - the 19
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