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May turn up his nose at the acutest mathematician in the world, for, (in the action and construction of Steam Engines,) there are cases in which the higher powers of the human mind must bend to mere mechanical instinct; and the observation applies.
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Robert Stuart was a nineteenth-century civil engineer.
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