...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...

...declaration of Lord Macaulay is fully borne out, that, next to the alphabet and the printing press, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of man. And what is true on a large scale, is just as true on a small scale. While railways care for the...

...plainly discernible. — Das physical improvement ist der fortschritt im »materiellen« : 1, 365: Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...morally and intellectually as well as materially. Cf. C. 3, 98 : to extend the empire of man over the material world. €.3, 106: extending the empire...

...palace, and of debates in the parliament. 23. 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. 24. You thus employ 'd, I will go root away The noisome weeds, which without profit suck The soil's...

...all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge2 distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion3 benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates...

...all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge2 distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion3 benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates...

...progress of civilization. Lord Macaulay declares that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...morally and intellectually as well as materially. " The road," Bushnell says, " is that physical sign or symbol by which you will best understand any...

...printing ргем excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done the most for civilization. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitatee the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove natural...

...progress and civilization. " Of all inventions," says Macaulay, " the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Barbarism knows nothing of " rapid transit." It uses what nature has furnished, or what the rudest...

...persistence of vision. I may once again draw attention to the words of Macaulay : " Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species," and then mention the discovery of an instrument which I think realizes those words more nearly than...