 | John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 602 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...former period, converted, by practical ingenuity, into phyjjic_al power. The most marvellous of modern inventions, one which realizes the imaginary feats... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 610 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...metaphorically but literally — the electro-magnetic telegraph — sprang into existence but a few years after the establishment of the scientific theory which it... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...acquaintance with nature is still almost in its infancy." ilifl's Principlei of Polit. Economy, vol. ii. pp. 246-7. 1 What this horrible disease once was, may... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 722 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...justify the belief that our acquaintance with nature is stiU almost in its infancy." MilFi Principle! of Political Economy, vol. ii. pp. 246-7. to his own... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 906 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond, as to justify the belief that our acquaintanre with nature is still almost iu its infancy." Mill's 1'rinciple* of Polit. Economy, vol.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...acquaintance with nature is still almost in its infancy." MUVs Principles of Polit. Economy, vol. ii. pp. 246-7. 3 What this horrible disease once was, may be... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 628 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...metaphorically but literally — the electro-magnetic telegraph — sprang into existence but a few years after the establishment of the scientific theory which it... | |
 | 478 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...metaphorically, but literally, the electro-magnetic telegraph — sprang into existence but a few years after the establishment of the scientific theory which it... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1870 - 724 pages
...and in a greater number of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...that our acquaintance with nature is still almost in ts infancy." MilCs Principles of Political Economy, vol. ii. pp. 246-7. to his own will, turning them... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1875 - 624 pages
...and in n greater numher of directions at once, than in any previous age or generation, and affording such frequent glimpses of unexplored fields beyond,...imaginary feats of the magician, not metaphorically hut literally — the electro-magnetic telegraph — sprang into existence but a few years after the... | |
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... the unlimited, growth of man's power over nature. Our knowledge of the properties and laws of physical objects shows no sign of approaching its ultimate boundaries: it is advancing more rapidly, and in a greater number of directions at once, than... 
