Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 287
at public works is stimulating a demand for education among the people,and the sum total of ignorance and poverty is gradually decreasing andmaking way for better conditions; for only a trained hand guided by atrained intellect can use the modem tools. This applies to agriculture as wellas to… … whether the early suffragists did more than be the first to recognize andherald the logical drift of contemporary events. It is through higher edu-cation that woman has quietly forged her way to the place she occupies inthe modern community, and that she is claiming her share of the commonheritage…
Progress · Inventions
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