The Great Events, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Great Events, Vol. 16 Seeking the most important, the most prominent characteristic of the quarter century that followed Napoleon´s downfall, we find it in the struggles of awakened democracy, or perhaps in the vastly increased material prosperity of the age, the marvellous progress of the common man in knowledge, in comfort, and in power. This was a period of peace, in which man, relieved from the dread incubus of universal war, became once more a toiler and a thinker. Honest labor did for the world what strife has never done; and genius, instead of planning new ways of inflicting death, sought to add to the happiness of life. Many of the industrial changes that make our own times seem so widely at variance with the past had their origin in this era. Fulton had but recently given America the steamboat. Stephenson now gave to all the world its system of steam railroads. The plan of the electric telegraph arose from the brain of Morse. Photography became of practical value through the experiments of Daguerre. More noteworthy still in its bearing on the future was the rapid spread of education among the lower classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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