This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...Invention in its ordinary sense, as the word implies, is the art of finding out. By genius is meant a species of creative power, like that of the poet, for example, in his highest state of excellence. Invention is of two kinds;--one resulting from a quick habit of observation, which detects the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...Invention in its ordinary sense, as the word implies, is the art of finding out. By genius is meant a species of creative power, like that of the poet, for example, in his highest state of excellence. Invention is of two kinds;--one resulting from a quick habit of observation, which detects the applicability of various forms of matter to similar objects. Of this an example may be given in the case of Dr. Wollaston, who, in a hurried experiment, needing some lime, which was not at hand, suddenly cast his eye on his ivory paper-cutter, and with some scrapings from its surface accomplished his object. This quick habit of observation, when it goes to the production of beautiful forms, is akin to fancy. The other, and higher kind of invention, is that which results from bringing a theory into practice, --from first imagining a desirable result, and then bringing it to bear by the exercise of the judgment, and constant persevering efforts steadily directed through a long period of time. The names of Brindley and Watt, and in our own time, Babbage, are examples of this quality. When Brindley set to work upon canals, he did not create, --he merely formed the plan of levelling the surfaces of natural streams, by drawing off the water into new channels of sufficient depth, and then preventing the water from being wasted. The process of forming the locks was a continued series of mechanical contriv ances, with purpose aforethought. When Mr. Watt first imagined the steam-engine, he did not invent the power of steam; that was known long before, and had existed from the time that fire and water existed. But he formed to himself the plan by which he hoped to realise the result of making steam an efficient human servant, through the agency of a perfect.
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