St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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!( 1 Adams tbe dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As Vie grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel tbe forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, mucb as the early Christians felt the Cross. The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old-fasbioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, tban tbis buge wheel, revolving within arm ' s-lengtb at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring —scarcely bumming an audible warning to stand a bair ' s breadtb furtber for respect

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of power— while it would not wake the baby lying dose against its frame. Before the end, one began to bray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive.