| Christopher P. Toumey - 1996 - 218 pages
...improving transportation, enhancing communication, saving labor, and transforming the wilderness."17 "We have universalized all the beautiful and glorious results of industry and skill," crowed Horace Greeley in 1853. "We have made them a common possession of the people. . . . We have... | |
| Benn Steil, David G. Victor, Richard R. Nelson - 2002 - 492 pages
...can be seen everywhere. Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune, pronounced in 1853 that "we have universalized all the beautiful and glorious results of industry and skill ... we have democratized the means and appliances of a higher life." These were to some extent prophetic I am indebted... | |
| Edward S. Cutler - 2003 - 236 pages
..."What authorizes us to use the word progress, and to look with a complacent, half-pitying eye upon the attainments of the generations that have passed...beautiful and glorious results of industry and skill, [and] we have made them a common possession of the people."" Arguing that mass industrial transformation... | |
| David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 pages
...progress and of the dispersal of wealth: "In our discoveries in science, by our applications of these discoveries to practical art, by the enormous increase...mechanical power consequent upon mechanical invention, industry and skill, we have made them a common possession of the people; and given to Society at large—... | |
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