The 19th Century
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The 19th Century: A Review of Progress To tell the whole story of the nineteenth century would consume all the time of the twentieth, and the world could not contain the books that should be written. The method of any such enterprise must necessarily be selective, not encyclopædic, and in drawing up a scheme for treatment, the first duty was, obviously, to provide accounts of the political and social developments of countries in nearest touch with our own. To show what new regions of the earth had been brought within our ken was also a necessary part of the task. Then there must be the carrying on of the story of the liberal arts and of literature and education - both as they have prolonged an ancient and honourable tradition, and as they have received and given new light and fresh life. There are also some provinces of knowledge and activity so peculiarly the creation of the nineteenth century that a singular prominence must be assigned them in any review of its lapsing years. Electricity, for example, and photography took their rise within the past hundred years, though whither their mighty and broadening streams will flow in the decades before us the silent Sphinx alone could tell us. Moreover, old paths of human research, such as medicine, have been so made over, so revolutionised and expanded - created anew, in fact - that they seem like an especial trophy of the nineteenth century. The promise of future achievement, as well, must not be omitted in any survey of the kind. 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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