 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 pages
...which our ancestors found in passing from 15 place to place. 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... | |
 | Albert Perry Brigham - 1911 - 542 pages
...transportation. This principle is thus given by Macaulay: "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." 186. The old era of waterways and earth roads. The first highways were streams followed by the small... | |
 | Josiah Seymour Currey - 1912 - 538 pages
...goods from place to place." On the right spandrel was an inscription taken from Macaulay, as follows: "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press...abridge distance have done most for civilization." The problem of transportation has, perhaps, been solved more completely by Americans than by any other... | |
 | Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1912 - 676 pages
...verified in a superlative degree Lord Macauley's declaration: "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." Robert Fulton, aided by Chancellor Livingston, had demonstrated the... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pages
...place to place." Over another, these lines from Macaulay : "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." In this original and attractive structure were displayed whatever pertained to transporting men and... | |
 | Harry Egerton Wimperis - 1913 - 204 pages
...difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from 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... | |
 | Samuel Insull - 1915 - 584 pages
...I think it was Lord Macaulay who made the statement that "of all in volitions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." Lord Macaulay died before the opening of the electrical-energy era. I think if he were living today,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1915 - 340 pages
...difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from 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... | |
 | Francis H. Lyman - 1916 - 556 pages
...traverses the county about four miles inland. Lord Macaulay wrote, "Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...abridge distance have done most for civilization." It is easy to account for the advanced civilization prevailing in Kenosha County when we enumerate... | |
 | 1917 - 886 pages
...Corporation Bill, enlarging the powers of trustees of cities of the sixth class. GOOD ROADS BY PAUL BKKR "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abidge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." — Lord Macauley in his History... | |
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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. 
