Note E8 — Chapter XVI · THE INVENTORS, CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND MECHANICS OF ENGLAND, AND ENGLISH PROGRESS.

“Deeds are greater than words. Deeds have such a life, mute but undeniable, and grow as living trees and fruit-trees do; they people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.”—“Past and Present,” p. 139. By Thomas Carlyle. London: Chapman & Hall.

[E9] “Natural science is the point of interest now, and I think it is dimming and extinguishing a good deal that was called poetry. These sublime and all-reconciling revelations of nature will exact of poetry a correspondent height and scope, or put an end to it.”—Letter of R. W. Emerson to Anna C. L. Botta, “Memoirs of —. By her friends,” 8vo, pp. 459. J. Selwin, Tait & Sons.