| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 460 pages
...advantages. In the third chapter of the History he describes the bad roads of 1660, and adds that ' every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...morally and intellectually as well as materially,' and that it ' tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 470 pages
...advantages. In the third chapter of the History he describes the bad roads of 1660, and adds that ' every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...morally and intellectually as well as materially,' and that it ' tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches... | |
| Hutton Webster - 1920 - 844 pages
...of the automobile in the United States. IT. "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. 12. "Next to steam-locomotion, the telegraph is probably the most powerful... | |
| Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland - 1920 - 588 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... | |
| Henry Goslee Prout, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1921 - 426 pages
...and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done the most for civilization of our species. Every improvement of...morally and intellectually as well as materially." This idea long ago passed into the common intellectual stock of mankind. Nobody questions it. In 1890,... | |
| Hutton Webster - 1921 - 978 pages
...manufacturing districts and cities of Great Britain. 5. "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. 6. " Next to steam-locomotion, the telegraph is probably the most powerful... | |
| George Fillmore Swain - 1922 - 232 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...the civilization of our species. Every improvement in the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not... | |
| George Fillmore Swain - 1922 - 234 pages
...inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement in the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not alone facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove... | |
| John Irving (of Dumbarton.) - 1924 - 236 pages
...famous third chapter of his history, writes — " 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." Dumbartonshire has largely benefited by adopting, judiciously, the various inventions for mechanical... | |
| Robert Lemuel Sackett - 1928 - 224 pages
...the alphabet and the printing-press excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done the most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement...morally and intellectually as well as materially." Judged by this standard, then, it does not seem too much to prophesy that when future historians look... | |
| |