 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...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 to place is lessened, benefits mankind morally... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...remarked, that, " 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, as well as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...place to place. 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 as well as... | |
 | India - 1852 - 566 pages
...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 mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well... | |
 | India - 1852 - 556 pages
...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 mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1854 - 1088 pages
...beautifully written, " of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, these 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, as well as... | |
 | John Blakely - Natural theology - 1856 - 302 pages
...inventions — the alphabet, the manufacture of paper, and the printing press excepted — those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. It has been remarked by an acute observer of historical changes1 that " every improvement in the means... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND IN THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. OF all inventions, the alphabet and printing alone excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. In the seventeenth century, the inhabitants of London were, for almost every practical purpose, further... | |
 | Thomas Rawlings - Canada - 1865 - 278 pages
...place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printingpress alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially,... | |
 | Henry Dircks - Industrial arts - 1865 - 670 pages
...place to place. 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." He then adds, speaking of steam, that it has — "in our day, produced an unprecedented revolution... | |
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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... 
