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The printing-press, for instance, marked a century of ability; but its main value is to develope centuries of greater ability. Society secretes, as it were, this mass of material wherewith to nourish its countless young; and, as this material is so permanent and so mobile, it is proportionately more advantageous to our posterity than the careful preparation of some anxious insect for her swarm of progeny. Unless the creature is born better than his creators, they do not save him. He sinks back or is overcome by others, perhaps lingering decadent among the traces of lost arts, like degenerate nomad savages who wander among the ruins of ancestral temples. We see plenty of such cases, individually, showing this arrested social development,-from the eighteenth-century man, who is only a little behind his age and does not hinder us much, to the dragging masses of dull peasantry and crude savagery, which keep us back so seriously.
| ISBN-13 | 9781546648758 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1546648755 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.98 x 0.33 x 9.02 In |
| List Price | $9.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 152 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2017-05-17 |
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