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Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ritish steamer crossed the Atlantic ; the network of railways wasdrawing its meshes more closely together. From January 1, 1840,began the introduction of the penny-post under the management ofRowland Hill; soon the construction of the first electric telegraph,invented in Germany by Gauss and W. Weber, in America byMorse, in England by Wheatstone and Cooke, abolished all dis-tance from human intercourse. The thought of man freed itselffrom limits of space, and also from the fetters of ancient conceptionsand prejudices. The reign of Victoria, therein resembling those of her predeces-sors Elizabeth and Anne, possesses also its own peculiar literature,of a kind different from that which immediately preceded, and if notso abvuidant in great names, yet excelling it in productiveness andvariety. George Grote, profoundly versed in the knowledge ofancient Hellas, and Macaulay (Fig. 56), brilliant as orator and writer,opened new paths in historical composition; Carlyle was the first to 270 PLAT
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