...goods from place to place." Macaulay says : " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the THE COURT HOl'SE. printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." Torrey's History of Fitchburg says : " The condition of the highways, in the early history of the town,...

...the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies. Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which bridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Undoubtedly the character of country...

...index of its progress and civilization. " 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." Barbarism knows nothing of " rapid transit." It uses what nature...

...17, 1889. Transporta tío« Librajy \гЛ V. У /лMR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN : Macaulay says that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press...inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. A nation, or an age of civilization, is perhaps more easily judged...

...men and goods from place to place." Lord Macaulay says : " Of all inventions, the alphabet, and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." Mr. Chairman, it was reserved for our calling to transform the steam of a teakettle into a force which...

...DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. CHAPTER I. THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for civilisation." — Macaulay. THE history of transportation is largely, and of necessity, the history...

...roads, the people would of necessity VOL. II. B be savages. ' 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...

...old travellers : Macaulay in his History of England says : "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. The inhabitantsjof London were for almost every practical purpose...

...Journal, February 5, 1883. CHAPTER XIX. FROM TRAIL TO TURNPIKE. 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...

...Grandpa, let me read what is on the right side of the doorway : " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." That was Macaulay, the great essayist and historian of England. I wish I had known he said that, for...