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American inventions and inventors (1900)

Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 252

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whole human race, havebeen enabled to put those thoughts into a permanent form.Thus they have been preserved and handed down from gen-eration to generation, so that we inherit to-day the wealth ofall the ages. We can make ourselves familiar with the greatthoughts uttered by Jesus, by Socrates,… … Up these grand truths from the printed page, they are notabsorbed, they still remain there. They may be used andtransmitted again and again in the same book and upon thesame page, even to future generations. On one occasion King Solomon said: Of making manybooks there is no end, and much study is a…

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