A Mechanic Should Sit Down Among His Tools

As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

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And consider them the way a poet considers the letters of the alphabet.

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 A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Fulton , Robert (1796), A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation, Retrieved on 2012-05-17
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