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CHAPTER VII.
RAPID TRANSIT ON MARS.
Here Thorwald paused and said he should be obliged to leave us a short
time to attend to some duty in the management of the vessel. When he
returned I remarked that neither he nor his companions seemed to have to
work very hard.
"That," he answered, "is just the thought I want to speak of next, as the
doctor has said many earthly troubles arise from severe labor. Here there
is no hard work for us. It is all done by some kind of mechanism. Look at
the handling of this ship, in which, as you say, no one is burdened. The
hard and disagreeable parts of the work are taken out of our hands and are
put into the hand of machinery, which in its perfection is almost
intelligent. It is so in all departments of work. Inventions looking
toward the saving of labor have closely followed each other for so many
years that their object is about accomplished, and all the pain and sorrow
accompanying daily toil are things of the dead past. Even our animals are
relieved from distressing labor and share with us the blessings of an
advanced civilization, every heavy weight being raised and every
burdensome load being drawn by an arm of steel or aluminum, which neither
tires nor feels.
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