The Grand Mechanic

George Stephenson was once walking under the stars and waxing lyrical over the wonders of God’s creation, when a companion remarked on the insignificance of Man in the face of it. Stephenson, agreed, but also gently reminded him that God thinks enough of Man to have endowed him with the capacity to understand something of what he has made.

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