inventions but not the steam itself, any more than other elements, as fire, water, atmosphere, mist, &c. Therefore to assert that steam is an invention of man is incorrect, for if it were an invention it ought to be ascribed indirectly to the women, or rather to the tea-kettle, or better still to the Chinese, who first furnished the China weed which set the tea-kettles going, in 1666. The invention, if any, consisted in applying steam as a motive power, and inventing engines and boilers for that purpose,—a power

that had been overlooked from 1666 to 1816,-no one, before the latter period, on observing the steam issuing from the spout of the tea-kettle like smoke, ever considering that it possessed more power than firesmoke. Hence the French, with their usual idiomatic liveliness, designated the first steamboat, probably from perceiving the black train of smoke issuing from the funnel, Bâtiment de fumée, better rendered Bâtiment de vapeur. But there is one creation or invention of the Almighty which is apt to escape individual observation, which, under .

God, is at the bottom of all the handiworks of human industry, of all their inventions, and everything that mankind do, under whatever influence. An invention which ought to stand first when speaking of man, and not be considered, as is usually the case, secondary.

We are in the habit of saying that the Almighty conferred upon man the noble faculty of the understanding, &c., that is, he conferred upon man's body a mind, or he conferred upon man's visible body an invisible mind,-whereas it ought to be, God made the mind, which is the greater and more noble, and conferred upon it the body, with its several members to act as its servants, to obey its dictates. God might have had the mind or spirit ready made, or prepared the first in order,—that is, the spirit, and built the body as a house, a clay tenement for the mind or spirit to tenant, occupy, inhabit, or dwell in. Thus Dr. Watts is reported to have said impromptu, when some one made remarks upon his shortness of stature

"Were I so tall could reach the pole,
And grasp the ocean with my span,

I must be measured by my soul—
The mind's the standard of the man."

SECTION V.—THE MIND, AND ITS LITTLE MEMBER THE TONGUE.

The rational mind of man, and its useful and skilful members the hands, being represented by all works of industry in the Grand Exhibition and elsewhere, so also that most useful member of the human mind, the tongue, may be represented. First by the immense concourse of all people, nations, and languages, (typical of the great assemblage above,) expressing by means of this wonderful and agile mental organ, in as many different dialects, their sentiments, laudation, admiration, and commendations, constituting in effect the Crystal Palace, without the confusion of tongues, a grand modern Babel, like a Royal Exchange or industrious hive, resounding with the hum of

busy multitudes. Without this, one of the chief members, instruments, and interpreters of the mind, in full activity, as one of the most extraordinary, voluble, seldom tiring, loquacious, indefatigable, and nimble pieces of nature's animated machinery, under whatever influence, either for good or evil, according to circumstances of good or ill will the entire exhibition would be incomplete and defective, all dumb show indeed, nonintellectual, dull, and spiritless, as if a herd of unreflecting, unobserving, nought-remarking, dumb cattle were allowed to pass through it, as some so-called rational beings do pass through the exhibition of creative wisdom.

And secondly it may be further represented speaking the sentiments of the mind, and communicating its ideas and thoughts in any language inaudibly or silently to the mind's eye through the medium or instrumentality of its useful tools wherewith it works, the pen and the press, set to work, and bringing out works which ought above all other works of industry to be represented and prized as intimately connected with the

same; especially when the benefit conferred and the immense amount of intellectual food it has been the means of providing and dispensing around to the enlightenment of all, in the shape of useful knowledge on all subjects and sciences, arts and inventions, general information, instruction, and entertainment for other minds, is considered. Therefore by way of episode for the mechanical department, as an extraordinary bit of nature's animated and mental machinery, the tongue and the mind may be allowed a space.

The wonderful works of God are so marvellously perfect, that many of them fulfil a variety of distinct offices, and answer very different purposes in the animal economy. For instance, the tongue. With animals this organ is almost exclusively employed in aiding the important operation of eating and drinking, and not for the purpose of speech,

-a faculty that has been denied them, with the exception of some few birds, and these only by the tuition of man. All that the mammalia can do is to enunciate noises blown