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The Hand Of The World
All our earthly well-being hangs upon the living hand of the world. Society is founded upon it. Its life-beats throb in our institutions. Every industry, every process is wrought by a hand, or by a superhand -- a machine whose mighty and cunning fingers the human hand invents and wields. The hand embodies its skill, projects and multiplies itself, in wondrous tools, and with them it spins, plows and reaps, converts clay into walls, and roofs our habitations with trees of the forest....