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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Railroad: Its Origin, Construction, Condition, and Connections; Embracing Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Notices of Cities, Towns, Villages, Stations, Industries, and Objects of Interest on Its Various Lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Up to 1825 the railroads constructed had been exclusively used for the transportation of coal and other heavy products, and were confined to private use only; but about this time it was proposed to build them for pur poses of general traffic and travel, and it was for this that the Liverpool and Manchester was constructed, being the first of the kind in the world. This road was not completed until 1829; but the experiment of transport ing passengers and merchandise on a railroad by locomotives had been practically tested on the Stockton and Burlington road, of which Mr. Stephenson was chief engineer, in 1825. This was a coal road, but running as it did between the towns of Darlington and Stock ton, a distance of twelve miles, it afforded an opportunity to test the experiment. Travel over it soon became popular and profitable to the company. A year later locomotives were successfully placed by Mr. Seguin, a French engineer, on a railroad run ning from Roan ne (via St. Etienne) to Lyons. Little is known of this early French experi ment, but Mr. Seguin made several important improvements to the locomotives then in use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.