 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 322 pages
...intelligently. "The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators," he said, "and the domestic history of tradition of the most enlightened nations, represent...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - World history - 1921 - 696 pages
...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, 1 Gibbon forgets here that cannon and the fundamentals of modern military method came to Europe with... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - History - 1920 - 404 pages
...of the human race." "The discoveries of ancient and modern naviXII PROGRESS IN ENGLAND 223 gators, and the domestic history or tradition of the most...of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. f\ y .From thjs__abjej:t_jcpndition, perhaps the primitive -' and universal, state_of.rnan^ he.has^... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - World history - 1921 - 1206 pages
...forgets here that cannon and the fundamentals of modern, military method came to Europe with the Mongols. destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - World history - 1921 - 1756 pages
...frg.t s hr t ht un ni ,). fundamental. of m¿n mnlntary ¿i¿ttiud c*nw to Europt- ¿t ith the Mo:.gl*. destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of...state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animal', to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - World history - 1921 - 1220 pages
...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and 1 Gibbon forgets here that cannon and the fundamentals of modern military method came to Europe with... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Civilization - 1921 - 1220 pages
...source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic liistory, or tradition, of the most enlightened nations, represent...the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and 1 Gibbon forgets here that cannon and the fundamentals of modern military method came to Europe with... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - World history - 1922 - 398 pages
...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement... | |
 | Frank Johnston - Analytical jurisprudence - 1925 - 376 pages
...the savage states of man, Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Following Chapter 38) says: "The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement... | |
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The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history or tradition of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. 
