Our Wonderful Progress, the World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works: A Vast Treasury and Compendium of the Achievements of Man and the Works of Nature (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2016年11月17日 - 774 頁 Excerpt from Our Wonderful Progress, the World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works: A Vast Treasury and Compendium of the Achievements of Man and the Works of Nature This is the Industrial Age, the age of triumphant knowledge. Follow the records of mankind down through all the centuries, scrutinize the achievements of the race, and more and more conspicuous becomes the fact that in no other period of the world have such marvelous advances in material and industrial progress been made. Within the last decade we have seen a dozen inventions and discoveries, any one of which would be sufficient to illuminate a whole century of the Middle Ages. 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. |
