Robert Fulton and the Clermont - The Authoritative Story of Robert Fulton's Early Experiments, Persistent Efforts, and Historic Achievements, Containing Many of Fulton's Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Drawings, and Pictures #265710

Robert Fulton anticipated the enlight enment of this century. He emphasized truths which prevail to-day and are termed modern: a hope for Universal Peace; a claim for Intellectual Freedom through a system of general, free education; a dis cernment that a Nation's wealth is the sum Of the talents and handiworks Of its citi zens; and a sacrifice Of any personal claim to leisure that through labor a world might be served; these were the ruling motives of his life.