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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The lost arts (1838). (search)
the Boston Journal, the first week he landed in Asia, found that his chronometer was out of order, because the steel of the works had become rusted. The London Medical and Surgical Journal advises surgeons not to venture to carry any lancets to Calcutta,--to have them gilded, because English steel could not bear the atmosphere of India. Yet the Damascus blades of the Crusades were not gilded, and they are as perfect as they were eight centuries ago. There was one at the London Exhibition, theno resistance; and Saladin, to show him that such is not the case, takes a scarf from his shoulders, which is so light that it almost floats in the air, and tossing it up, severs it before it can descend. George Thompson told me he saw a man in Calcutta throw a handful of floss-silk into the air, and a Hindoo sever it into pieces with his sabre. We can produce nothing like this. Taking their employment of the mechanical forces, and their movement of large masses from the earth, we know that