Our European Ancestors
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Tappan, Eva March) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Our European Ancestors: An Introduction to United States History Recent years have brought the United States into a wilderness of problems. Our world is a very different place from the world of a century ago. Looking back not so very many decades, history was an outline of wars and a series of statements more or less partisan, for whose modification there was little demand. History to-day is a study of motives and men, of causes and effects. Geography used to be in great degree a matter of unknown quantities. A large area of our own country was contentedly marked on the map "Great American Desert." People made their wills before they ventured to cross the ocean. Any mediocre book of wanderings in Europe was read almost as eagerly as one of travels on a distant planet might have been. To-day oceans have narrowed; time and distance have been almost annihilated. In the earlier days science moved slowly. A scientific discovery was the property of a few scholars. Simplified lectures gradually brought it to the knowledge of the people. Inventions appeared one at a time. A single machine overturned the customs of a country. To-day inventions come by handfuls; knowledge is thrust upon us. The boy in the street knows more of electricity than did his learned grandfather. Science has become spectacular; but we are well used to marvels. We are blinded by excess of light. A scientific discovery is described in the Sunday papers. Monday morning it is transmuted into some simple household convenience, perhaps even a toy for children. 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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