ngine, which the Duke of Gloucester had so shrewdly
suspected. The truth must be told. Adam had entirely forgotten that in
the intricacies of his mechanical lurked the papers that might overthrow
a throne! Magnificent Incarnation was he (in that oblivion) of Science
itself, which cares not a jot for men and nations, in their ephemeral
existences; which only remembers THINGS,--things that endure for
ages; and in its stupendous calculations loses sight of the unit of a
generation! No, he had thoroughly forgotten Henry, Edward, his own limbs
and life,--not only York and Lancaster, but Adam Warner and the
rack. Grand in his forgetfulness, he stood before the tiger and the
tiger-cat,--Edward and--Richard,--A Pure Thought, a Man's Soul; Science
fearless in the presence of Cruelty, Tyranny, Craft, and Power.

In truth, now that Adam was thoroughly in his own sphere, was in the
domain of which he was king, and those beings in velvet and ermine were
but as ignorant savages admitted to the frontier of his realm, his form
seemed to dilate into a majesty the beholders had not before recognized;
and even the lazy Edward muttered involuntarily, "By my halidame, the
man has a noble presence!"

"I am prepared now, sire," said Adam, loftily, "to show to my king and
to this court, that, unnoticed and obscure, in study and retreat, often
live those men whom kings may be proud to call their subjects. Will it
please you, my lords, this way!" and he motioned so commandingly to the
room in which he had left the Eureka, that his audience rose by a common
impulse, and in another minute stood grouped round the model in the
adjoining chamber. This really wonderful invention--so wonderful,
indeed, that it will surpass the faith of those who do not pause to
consider what vast forestallments of modern science have been made and
lost in the darkness of ages not fitted to receive them--was, doubtless,
in many important details not yet adapted for the practical uses
to which Adam designed its application. But as a mere model, as a
marvellous essay, for the suggestion of gigantic results, it was,
perhaps, to the full as effective as the ingenuity of a mechanic of our
own day could construct. It is true that it was crowded with unnecessary
cylinders, slides, cocks, and wheals--hideous and clumsy to the eye--but
through this intricacy the great simple design accomplished its main
object. It contrived to show what force and skill man can obtain from
the a