Miscellaneous Writings (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Elihu Burritt

9780483256958: Miscellaneous Writings (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483256951 ISBN 13: 9780483256958

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Miscellaneous Writings

I see it, you would ask me what I have to say for my self for dropping the hammer and taking up the quill, as a member of your profession. I will be honest now, and tell you the whole story. I was transposed from the anvil to the editor's chair by the genius of machinery. Don't smile, friends, it was even so. I had stood and looked for hours on those thoughtless, iron intellects, those iron fingered, sober, supple automatons, as they caught up a bale of cotton, and twirled it in the twinkling of an eye, into a whirlwind of whizzing shreds, and laid it at my feet in folds of snow-white cloth, ready for the use of our most voluptuous antipodes. They were wonderful things, those looms and spindles; but they could not spin thoughts; there was no attribute of Divinity' m them and I admired them, nothing more. They were excessively curious, but I could estimate the whole compass of their doings and destiny in finger power; so I am away and left them spin ning - cotton.

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