Note 5 — Section 144. JAMES WATT AND THE STEAM-ENGINE. III.
Reading edition
[1] Commence the period with ‘In short’.
[2] to assign limits to a thing, einer Sache Grenzen stecken.
[3] Say ‘it has completed’, etc.
[4] Materie, f.
[5] zu.
[6] Say ‘which are destined (zu etwas bestimmt sein, Comp. S. 87, N. 6) to assist and to reward the labours of (= of the) future generations’.
[7] It — owing = All this we owe mainly to the genius of a single man.
[8] Geschlecht, n.; use the verb in the Perfect; ever, je vorher.
[9] sondern auch.
[10] sagenhaft.
[11] rude = inexperienced.
[12] bei, with the def. art.
[13] dieser.