We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s ne

		be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to 

		are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their phy

		er and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances 

		them what intellect has been to the human race. In the c

		Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upo

		m; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them,

		lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot 

		e when the machines will hold the real supremacy over th

		philosophic mind can for a moment question.

				- Cellarius, 1863