 | George William Tillson - 1900 - 580 pages
...LORD MACAULAT 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." Adam Smith once asserted that " the construction of roads is the greatest of all improvements." While... | |
 | 1903 - 1028 pages
..."THE KATY FLYER" When writing to Advertisers kindly mention "THE WORLD TO-DAY." the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." — — MACAULEY PERFECTION IN TRANSPORTATION IS FURNISHED BY THE CHICAGO & ALTON RAILWAY The heaviest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 506 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of j?lj_ 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... | |
 | Urquhart Atwell Forbes, Arnold C. Burmester - 1904 - 298 pages
...INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW AND ARNOLD C. BURMESTER ' Of all Inventions, the alphabet and the printing-prosa alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...done most for the civilization of our species.'— MACAULAY. LONDON FE ROBINSON & CO. 20 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBDRY PREFACE Ix the present work... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1904 - 926 pages
...SOLD TONIIMONSOF P10THERS IN THE NEW WORLD AND OLD "Of all invent! the alphapet the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...done most for the civilization of our species."— —MACAU LBV PERFECTION IN TBANSPOBTATIOJi IS FURNISHED BY THE CHICAGO & ALTON RAILWAY The heaviest... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventioas, 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... | |
 | Texas. Department of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics and History - 1905 - 450 pages
...Miami County Farmers' Institute.) Macaulay says that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our -species. This being true, a nation or an age of civilization, is perhaps more easily judged and understood by... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...Ill (1848)] hi passing from place to place. Of 6 all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation 10 of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Clive Day - 1907 - 692 pages
...importance of the subjects of the chapter. — " 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." Macaulay's celebrated sentence applies to civilization in general. With regard to the material civilization... | |
 | Clive Day - 1907 - 692 pages
...subjects of the chapter. — "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone except ed, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Maeaulay's celebrated sentence applies to civilization in general. With regard to the material civilization... | |
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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,... 
