Note 24 — Chapter XIV · THE MIND AND THE HAND.

“The hand is the most marvellous instrument in the world; it is the necessary complement of the mind in dealing with matter in all its varied forms. It is the hand that ‘rounded Peter’s dome;’ it is the hand that carved those statues in marble and bronze, that painted those pictures in palace and church, which we travel into distant lands to admire; it is the hand that builds the ships which sail the sea, laden with the commerce of the world; it is the hand that constructs the machinery which moves the busy industries of this age of steam; it is the hand that enables the mind to realize in a thousand ways its highest imaginings, its profoundest reasonings, and its most practical inventions.”—Mr. James MacAlister, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Philadelphia, before the American Institute of Instruction at Saratoga, July 13, 1882.