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Manuals of Commerce, Technical, Industrial and Commercial Volume 3; The Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce

Manuals of Commerce, Technical, Industrial and Commercial Volume 3; The Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce

Yeats, John

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235849651
ISBN13: 9781235849657
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.42 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... The picture presented by modern history ought to convince those who seem tardy in apprehending the instruction which it is fitted to convey. Let it not be feared that the predilection for industrial progress, and for those branches of natural science most immediately connected with it, which characterise the age in which we live, has any necessary tendency to check intellectual exertion in the fair fields of classical antiquity, history, and philosophy; or to deprive of the life-giving breath of imagination the arts and the literature which embellish life. Where all the blossoms of civilisation unfold themselves with vigour under the shelter of wise laws and free institutions, there is no danger of the development of the human mind in any one direction proving prejudicial to it in others. Each offers to the nation precious fruits, --those which furnish necessary subsistence and comfort, and are the foundation of material wealth, --and those fruits of creative fancy which, far more enduring than that wealth, transmit the glory of the nation to the remotest posterity.--Humboldt's Cosmos. PREFACE. Were the sixty-five or more territories composing the British Empire to be all joined together, and then equally divided as a gigantic chess-board, the United Kingdom would hardly occupy in it the space of a single square. Yet from such a corner or centre, we Englishmen are expected to maintain some degree of authority, and exercise some amount of beneficial influence, over the rest of the people, or else we lose control. The loss of supremacy on our part would be serious to all concerned, hence we involuntarily ask, How was the ascendency gained, and how can it best be preserved? The answer in both cases must be, Principally by commerce. A...

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