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44 history of the human race, before the year 1836.

"And unto the angel of the church of Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass: he that overcometh and keepeth my words unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and I will give him the morning star." We shall now scrutinize this mighty angel, from the rainbow that is on his head, down to the earth and the sea upon which he places his feet. He should have made his appearance about the year 1836, when this great activity in the iron trade began. We have ten propositions that we shall now proceed to offer, to prove that this angel is none other than the steam-engine, as it now exists.

Our first proposition is, that this is the same vision that Daniel saw, some six hundred years before it was seen by St. John. In the tenth chapter of his prophecy, Daniel says: "In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time