 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 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...locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually yo as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 192 pages
...ancestors found in passing from 15 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 - 1909 - 194 pages
...excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. J Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually 20 as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature... | |
 | National Board of Trade (U.S.) - 1872 - 376 pages
...promote general interchange ? MACAULAY says that " of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press excepted, those inventions which abridge distance,...civilization of our species." " Every improvement," he adds, " of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as physically."... | |
 | Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1912 - 676 pages
...superlative degree Lord Macauley's declaration: "Of all the inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Robert Fulton, aided by Chancellor Livingston, had demonstrated the supremacy of steam on the Hudson,... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs. Convention - 1912 - 628 pages
...road. Macaulay declares that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. The good road is one of the primary abridgements of distance. "Good roads are the symbol of progress:"... | |
 | Leigh Hadley Irvine - 1916 - 40 pages
...1873. Macaulay said in his History of England: "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." The relative cost of paving per square yard complete, in New York City, 1911, was as follows: Granite,... | |
 | John Lyle Harrington, Ernest Emmanuel Howard - 1918 - 76 pages
...COMPANY. PAVEMENTS, WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. "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... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1919 - 498 pages
...of the automobile in the United States. :o. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Comment on this statement, n. Mention some of the most important articles of modem commerce and the... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1919 - 944 pages
...of the automobile in the United States. 10. "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Comment on this statement, n. Mention some of the most important articles of modem commerce and the... | |
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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,... 
