From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . DC O ira:u H Z0 UJ DCI (0 5 o hIfl Ih CHATTER I. The Threshold of the Century. AFTER its long career of triumph and disaster, glory and shame, theworld stands to-day at the end oi an old and the beginning of a newcentury iooking forward with hope and backward with pride, for ithas just completed the most wonderful hundred years it has ever knownand has laid a noble foundation for the twentieth century, now at itsdawn There can be no more fitting- time than this to review the marvelousprogress of the closing
From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . DC O ira:u H Z0 UJ DCI (0 5 o hIfl Ih CHATTER I. The Threshold of the Century. AFTER its long career of triumph and disaster, glory and shame, theworld stands to-day at the end oi an old and the beginning of a newcentury iooking forward with hope and backward with pride, for ithas just completed the most wonderful hundred years it has ever knownand has laid a noble foundation for the twentieth century, now at itsdawn There can be no more fitting- time than this to review the marvelousprogress of the closing century through a portion of which TheAgeweLiveall of us have lived, many of us through a great portion of in and itsit. Some of the greatest of its events have taken place before rea ventsour own eyes . in some of them many now living have borne a part ; topicture them again to our mental vision cannot fail to be of interest andprofit to us all. When, after a weary climb, we find ourselves on the summit of a loftymountain, and look back from that commanding altitude over the groun
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