 | Robert Lemuel Sackett - 1928 - 224 pages
...printing-press excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done the most for thetcivilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of...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... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 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... | |
 | M. G. Lay - 1999 - 428 pages
...Copyright © 1992 by Maxwell Gordon Lay All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...and intellectually as well as materially . . . and binds together all branches of the great human family. MACAULAY, HISTORY or ENGLAND, 1 855 First let... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 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... | |
 | Claire Grant (Lecturer in law) - 2004 - 200 pages
...consequences for their society. The historian Macaulay ( 1 849: iii, I, 370) confidently asserted that 'every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually'. Chicagoans were less sure that increasing locomotility necessarily brought progress. The early twentieth... | |
 | Geoffrey Chamberlain - 2007 - 362 pages
...the upper end of Gower Street in London, 1809. The fare was one shilling (1808, Thomas Rowlandson) "Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...morally and intellectually as well as materially." Thomas Macaulay, History of England ( This enormous change in society needed two things: firstly a... | |
 | 1871 - 430 pages
...printing-press 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 physically." It will be more to the purpose in dealing with metropolitan locomotion to show what has... | |
 | 1912 - 1256 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...done most for the civilization of our species. Every impay well; they decrease the cost of transporting farm provement of the means of locomotion benefits... | |
 | Louisiana Engineering Society - 1916 - 472 pages
...HAMILTON. (Head before the Society, May 8, 1916) "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Lord Macaulay made no specific reference to that material which is now so generally conceded to be... | |
 | 1870 - 1056 pages
..." Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those which abridge distances have done most for the civilization of our species; every improvement of the means of locomotion benefiting mankind, morally and intellectually as well as materially." Mr. President, the Roman empire... | |
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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,... 
