Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876

We have presented a feeble sketch of a century that stands out from its fellows, not as a mere continuation, or even intensification, of thema hundred annual circuits of the earth in its orbit as little distinguished by intellectual or material achievement as those repetitions of the old beaten track through space are by astronomical incidentbut as an epoch sui generis, a century d'elite, picked out from the long ranks of time for special service, charged by Fate with an extraordinary duty, and decorated for its successful performance. Those of its historic comrades even partially so honored are few indeed. They will not make a platoonscarce a corporal's guard. We should seek them, for instance, in [pg 266] the Periclean age, when eternal beauty, and something very like eternal truth, gained a habitation upon earth through the chisel and the pen; in the first years of the Roman empire, when the whole temperate zone west of China found itself politically and socially a unit, at rest but for the labors of peace; and in the sixteenth century, when the area fit for the support of man was suddenly doubled, when the nominal value of his possessions was additionally doubled by the mines of Mexico and Peru, and when his mental implements were in a far greater proportion multiplied by the press. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 13655
Author: Various
Release Date: Oct 6, 2004
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Language: English