 | 1849 - 820 pages
...pillars of the Constitution. "Of all inventions," says Macaulay, "the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...the civilization of our species." Every improvement, oy which time or distance from place to place is lessened, benefits mankind morally and intellectually,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | 1852 - 556 pages
...advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, ' those inventions which abridge distance...means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates the ' interchange of the various... | |
 | 1852 - 566 pages
...advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, ' those inventions which abridge distance...means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates the ' interchange of the various... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 pages
...great modern historian of England has well said, that next to the alphabet and the printing press, those inventions which .abridge distance have done most for the civilization of mankind. We may add, truly, that the rail-road is the great apostle of progress. Though it has come... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1854 - 350 pages
...ventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, " those inventions which abridge distances have done most for the " civilization of our species....improvement of the means of " locomotion benefits mankind generally and intellectually as well " as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the... | |
 | John Blakely - 1856 - 302 pages
...results. Of all human inventions — the alphabet, the manufacture of paper, and the printing press excepted — those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species. It has been remarked by an acute observer of historical changes1 that " every improvement in the means... | |
 | George Roberts - 1856 - 620 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1858 - 480 pages
...printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of...benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as mate- ' rially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art,... | |
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Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies,... 
