Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. SUNDAY TOPICS—NO DAILY PAPERS IN THE COVE—CHRISTIANS —r MY GOOD AUNT — THE GREAT CORPORATION — THE AGGREGATE SOUL NOT DEAD TO THE HUMANITIES—CAMBRAl'S CIVILIZATION — THE CITY OF PULLMAN — A VERY SIMPLE PROBLEM—HUMAN NATURE NOT ANGELIC—PATRIARCHAL POSITION—PATRICIANS AND PLEBEIANS—ARISTOCRACY—OLD TIME LITERATURE—THE ALMANAC—EXPERIMENT IN PNEUMATICS—ALSO WITH PROJECTILES—MY UNCLE KNEW MORE THAN GEORGE WASHINGTON—NIAGARA TO BE UTILIZED—A BOY'S PLEASURES AND TROUBLES — EARLY STUDIES IN GEOLOGY — A SELF-DEVOTED OX — IDENTITY OF THE BOY. That tariff on iron! I first heard of it more than fifty-five years ago, in the Presidential contest of 1828. It has been a topic for discussion ever since, but whether from lack of statesmanship or other cause, I am not required to decide. I was then at my uncle's iron works in Bedford county. He was strongly in favor of the tariff, and talked of it on week-days to his visitors and the hands; but the latter were mostly "Jackson men," and voted against my uncle's side at elections. On Sundays the tariff was laid aside; and the subjects of Predestination, Free-will, Foreknowledge, Omniscience, Fixed Fate, and Sins of Omission and Commission, were then up for discussion, as secular topics were not suited to the sanctity of the sabbath, although it was "a work of necessity" for the furnace to run. Pious Presbyterians they were, my uncle and aunt, but their mansion— "the big house," as it was called among the hands—opened as hospitably to the Methodist Circuit Rider as to the Presbyterian Minister, and their sectarian horses had equal stalls and fodder. Elaborate discussions of religious questions often took place, the preachers of course participating, but all conducted with courtesy and dignity, though frequently enlivened by wit and ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.