America and EuropeD. Appleton, 1857 - 411 páginas |
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... material prosperity . It does not enter within the range of this work to detail the giant steps of her progress , nor to present statistical comparisons . Statistics , even the most detailed and complete , never axiomatic and conclusive ...
... material prosperity . It does not enter within the range of this work to detail the giant steps of her progress , nor to present statistical comparisons . Statistics , even the most detailed and complete , never axiomatic and conclusive ...
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... material circumstances . Herein the true cause is to be found , amidst many explications , of the fluctuations of civilization , of its slow march , of its difficult expansion even in one and the same nation , dwelling in the same ...
... material circumstances . Herein the true cause is to be found , amidst many explications , of the fluctuations of civilization , of its slow march , of its difficult expansion even in one and the same nation , dwelling in the same ...
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... the bloody as well as the luminous pages which fill history , by the efforts for ameliorating the moral and material state wherein consists civilization , by the religious and philosophical speculations enkindled in RACES , POPULATION . 3.
... the bloody as well as the luminous pages which fill history , by the efforts for ameliorating the moral and material state wherein consists civilization , by the religious and philosophical speculations enkindled in RACES , POPULATION . 3.
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... material manifestations ; that only a few northern nations are the exclusive bearers and the agents of the culture of the globe . Thus the modern post - Roman civilization - according to this haughty verdict -is exclusively worked out ...
... material manifestations ; that only a few northern nations are the exclusive bearers and the agents of the culture of the globe . Thus the modern post - Roman civilization - according to this haughty verdict -is exclusively worked out ...
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... material works and labors have been accomplished in the hot re- gions of Asia , at epochs when man did not possess such various scientific means and tools to bridle and master the reluctant elements of nature . There at remote times was ...
... material works and labors have been accomplished in the hot re- gions of Asia , at epochs when man did not possess such various scientific means and tools to bridle and master the reluctant elements of nature . There at remote times was ...
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