Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Suffolk District Medical Society: At Its First Anniversary Meeting, Boston, April 27, 1850
Since the introduction of that great agent by which space has been almost annihilated, and time made to perform a triple task -- an agent changing the whole face of the world, and altering the aspect of all the relations of civilized life -- since, I say, the introduction of steam, for the thousand purposes inwhich it has supplied the place of human labor, and especially, since its application to navigation and to rapid locomotion, the human mind, roused into unwonted action, has been driven as by a tempest from its usual course; and, as this wonder-working power exhibited its applicability to new and impor tant objects, a feverish expectation was produced which reason could not bound.
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