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 542
prise two fifths of the land surface of the globe, andcontain one third of its population. These colonies and protectorates importannually over $1,500,000,000 worth of commodities, and of this large summore than forty per cent is bought from mother countries. The last nationto adopt the policy of… … THE CENTURYS COMMERCIAL PROGRESS 513 IX. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSPECT. The world is entering upon the twentieth century with the nations of theearth bound to each cither by much closer relations than existed a hundredyears ago, and chief among the forces that draw the countries of the…
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