 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ). Meeting - Bar associations - 1919 - 352 pages
...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 - 498 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 - 944 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... | |
 | Evening and continuation schools - 1921 - 382 pages
...The Economic Importance of the Telegraph. Introduction Most of us will agree with the man who said, "Of all inventions, the Alphabet and Printing Press...alone excepted, those which abridge distance have done the most for civilization." What does "abridging distance" mean? In the olden days an important message... | |
 | Hutton Webster - Europe - 1920 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | Hutton Webster - World history - 1921 - 978 pages
...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 - Civil engineering - 1922 - 234 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 in the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
 | George Richard Chatburn - Roads - 1923 - 562 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... | |
 | John Irving (of Dumbarton.) - Dunbartonshire (Scotland) - 1924 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Edgar Erastus Clark - Railroad conductors - 1906 - 1072 pages
...very limited measure would be impossible. In stately diction, and with prophetic ken, Macauley wrote 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. Every improvement... | |
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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... 
