 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. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually...  A Life of George Westinghouse - Page 319by Henry Goslee Prout, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1922 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone...those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...imperfect was the extreme difficulty which unj. our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone...those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...would enable us to go • One of the most popular authors of the day, has remarked, that, " of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone...those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...the greatest number" is one of the pillars of the Constitution. "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." Every improvement, oy which time or distance from place... | |
 | India - 1852 - 566 pages
...treating of the causes that checked the advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted,...those inventions which abridge distance have done most ' for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits... | |
 | India - 1852 - 556 pages
...treating of the causes that checked the advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted,...those inventions which abridge distance have done most ' for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits... | |
 | George Roberts - England - 1856 - 620 pages
...imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone...those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1857 - 748 pages
...the best evidences of civilization. How true that "of all the inventions, the alphabet and printing alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance, have done the most for the civilization of our species." Our railroads to-day are the best friends of the working community,... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 632 pages
...Manuscripts. 1810-1822. ' C\f all inventions,' says Lord Macaulay, in his ' History of ' England,' ' the alphabet and the printing press alone ' excepted,...those inventions which abridge distance have done ' most for the civilisation of our species.' ' Every improve' mcnt,' he adds, ' of the means of locomotion... | |
 | Henry Dircks - Industrial arts - 1865 - 670 pages
...imperfect, was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone...those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." He then adds, speaking of steam, that it has — "in our... | |
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