. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. ISAAC NEWTON Mathematician Born 1642 Died 1727 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT Inventor Born 1732 Died 1792. GEORGE STEPHENSON Engineer Bora 1781 Died 1848 PIONEERS OF SCIENCE CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN Naturalist Born 1800 Died 1882 THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY 553 tion has reacted upon political life, and always to advancethe cause of democracy. The premium set upon personalwealth, capital, and efficiency, instead of on noble birth andancestral acres, has shaken the prestige of, even if it has notdestroyed, the old aristocracies that rest on mediaeval
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. ISAAC NEWTON Mathematician Born 1642 Died 1727 RICHARD ARKWRIGHT Inventor Born 1732 Died 1792. GEORGE STEPHENSON Engineer Bora 1781 Died 1848 PIONEERS OF SCIENCE CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN Naturalist Born 1800 Died 1882 THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY 553 tion has reacted upon political life, and always to advancethe cause of democracy. The premium set upon personalwealth, capital, and efficiency, instead of on noble birth andancestral acres, has shaken the prestige of, even if it has notdestroyed, the old aristocracies that rest on mediaeval tradi-tions. The lower classes have been brought together even moreconstantly in cities:l and in great cities the toilers can combinefor mutual betterment or for agitation infinitely more easilythan as so many scattered farmers. And finally — a matteroften overlooked but not to be despised — the shifting of mensinterest to manufacturing and commerce, with their keencompetitions,. has put a premium on invention: — some newscientific devices which will distance a commercial rival andlead to honorable gain. This spirit of invention, which is thevery
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