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Excerpt from The Steam-Engine; Or, the Powers of Flame: An Original Poem in Ten Cantos The unparalleled greatness and grandeur of the Powers, collectively termed the steam-engine, the great revolutions and ameliorations which they have gradually produced in the state of Society, during the last half-century, and the consequent vast progression of the human race to a higher position in intelligence and power throughout the civilized world, have concurrently raised them so high in public estimation that, I trust, a recital of their rise and pro gress, in the present form, will excite no surprise. It will be evident from a perusal of the Poem, even to one who has never previously turned much of his atten tion to the development of the steam-powers, that they have deeply impressed themselves upon the inventive intellect of a very high order of men, - from commoners to peers, for a long series of centuries; until they have at length amazed and gratified the world by their achieve ments; the mere notion of which, not many years since, would have been regarded as an attempt to surpass Eastern romance, and which have even more than realized the sublime, which gives magnificence to poetical ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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