Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 204.

[Necessity of Complex Mechanism]

Anon

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Machinery, Time


    Illustrates, using the example of a watch, the aphorism that 'To attain complex and difficult ends by simple means, whether in physics or politics, falls not to the lot of man'.



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