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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)

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by the results of his initial efforts, he went to Boston to solicitpecuniary aid for a second and much larger exhibition. Although he was atthat time widely known for his public-spirited philanthropy, and also as thefounder of the influential Berkshire Agricultural Society, his appeals for… … 426 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY You will get no aid from Boston ; commerce, literature, theology, medicine, the university, anduniversal politics are against jou. The ex-President was correct in his judgment. Mr. Watson did not receive asingle favorable response to his appeals ; yet…

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