Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . eenth century are not to be matched. Not only is thesurprising increase of knowledge new, but the use to which it has beenput is new also. The growth of industrial invention is not a fact we arepermitted to forget. We do, however, sometimes forget how much of itis due to a close connection between theo
Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . eenth century are not to be matched. Not only is thesurprising increase of knowledge new, but the use to which it has beenput is new also. The growth of industrial invention is not a fact we arepermitted to forget. We do, however, sometimes forget how much of itis due to a close connection between theoretic knowledge and its utili-tarian application, which, in its degree, is altogether unexampled in thehistory of mankind. I suppose that at this moment, if we were alloweda vision of the embryonic forces which are predestined most potently toaffect the future of mankind, we should have to look for them not in thelegislature nor in the press, nor on the platform ; not in the schemes ofpractical statesmen, nor the dreams of the political theorists, but in thelaboratories of scientific students whose names are but little in themouths of men, who cannot themselves forecast the results of their ownlabors, and whose theories could scarcely be understood by those whomthey will chiefly ^V\E UNIVERJ/A: o
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