Method and results : essays / by Thomas H. Huxley.

  • Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1893
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    THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 1837—1887 [1887] The most obvious and the most distinctive fea- ture of the History of CiviUsation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of indus- trial production by the ajjplication of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised; the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked; and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ao-es. The diminution or removal of local ignor- ance and prejudice, the creation of common
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