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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Thomas Ewbank (1792–1870)

Ewbank, Thomas. An American scientist and writer; born in Durham County, England, March 11, 1792; died in New York, Sept. 16, 1870. His publications include: ‘The World a Workshop, or the Physical Relation of Man to the Earth’ (1855); ‘Life in Brazil,’ with an appendix on a collection of American antiquities (1857); ‘Thoughts on Matter and Force’ (1858); ‘Reminiscences in the Patent Office’ (1859); and ‘Inorganic Forces ordained to Supersede Human Slavery,’ an essay.