 | Texas.Dept.of agriculture,insurance,statistics and history - 1905
...BOADS. (By FA Hinbaugti, Peru, Ind. Re'ad before the 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,... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks, Marietta Hubbard - English language - 1905 - 442 pages
...place. Of all the 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1905 - 647 pages
...Modern Transportation Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press 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... | |
 | Clive Day - Commerce - 1907 - 626 pages
...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... | |
 | National Board of Trade (U.S.) - Transportation - 1872
...MACAULAY says that " of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press excepted, those inventions which abridge distance, have done most for the civilization of our species." " Every improvement," he adds, " of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - American literature - 1915 - 320 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... | |
 | Leigh Hadley Irvine - Roads - 1916 - 31 pages
...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." The relative cost of paving per square yard complete, in New York City, 1911, was as follows: Granite,... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ). Meeting - Bar associations - 1919
...quoted words : "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... | |
 | Hutton Webster - Europe - 1919 - 448 pages
...States. :o. "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, n. Mention some of the most important articles of modem commerce and the... | |
 | Hutton Webster - History, Modern - 1919 - 787 pages
...States. 10. "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, n. Mention some of the most important articles of modem commerce and the... | |
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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... 
