text:  On the whole like the use of gunpowder which made a Tartar war impossible and which rapidly tended to civilize Europe steam appears to be intended as a further step in the same high process in which force is to be put down by intelligence and success even in war is to depend on the industry of peace; thus in fact providing a perpetual restriction on the belligerent propensities of nations and urging the uncivilized by necessity to own the superiority and follow the example of the civilized by knowledge habit and principle