Stephenson : George (1781-1848), English engineer, chief inventor of the railroad locomotive. He also found the principle on which Davy’s Safety Lamp was based.
... hold that all can be made the spirit's means of self-finding and all can be converted into its instruments of divine living. Sri Aurobindo ______________________ 1. The answer of Stephenson to those who argued by strict scientific logic that his engine on rails could not and should not move, "Your difficulty is solved by its moving." — ed. Page 37 ...
... of permanent birth. But that is not altogether inevitable, for the principle of such changes in Nature seems to be a long obscure preparation followed ________________ * The answer of Stephenson to those who argued by strict scientific logic that his engine on rails could not and should not move, "Your difficulty is solved by its moving." [Sri Aurobindo's footnote.] Page 136 ...
... consulting a Professor. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, but the Professor is an Indian. He is not an Englishman. It is these people who have learnt the language that want to use current phrases. As Richard Stephenson said, "English language is like a woman who loves you for taking liberty with her." Once Sir D.-V. sent me one of his books and on every page I found 40 such worn out expressions, what they call ...
... of sensations: making love to a woman." There are a number of non-sequiturs in the argument. First of all, about the problem we can say from the practical standpoint what was said when Stephenson's steam-engine was put on trial before sceptical theoreticians of science: solvitur ambulando , "it is solved by the moving". In other words, the problem here is solved by the very fact that superb ...
... of things.” 2 One of the jobs which he took up in his youth, thanks to his intelligence and studious reading, was that of surveyor. It was the initial boom time for building railway lines. Stephenson’s steam locomotive, the Rocket, had been on the rails since 1830, and railway tracks began to crisscross through the landscape, of course first in Britain, but soon afterwards also in other countries ...
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