Caxton and the art of printing by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491, Printing -- History
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society

goodness. Is ifc nothing more than a lucky accommodation which makes the polarity of the needle to subserve the purposes of the mariner ? Or may it not be safely affirmed, both that the magnetic influence (whatever its primary intention may be) had reference to the business of navigation—a reference incalculably important to the spread and improvement of the human race ; and that the discovery and the application of this influence arrived at the destined moment in the revolution of human affairs, when, in combination with other events, it would produce the greatest effect ? Nor should we scruple to aflirm that the relation between the earth's axis and the conspicuous star which, without a near rival, attracts even the eye of the vulgar, and shows the north to the wanderer in the wilderness or on the ocean, is in like manner a beneficent arrangement ? Those who would spurn the supposition that the celestial locality of a sun immeasurably remote from our system, should have reference to the accommodation of the inhabitants of a place so inconsiderable as our own, forget the style of the Divine works, which is to serve some greater principal end, compatible with ten thousand lesser or remoter interests,"

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