Excerpt from The Marvels of Modern Mechanism: And Their Relation to Social Betterment The world thrills at the recital of the deeds of a Livingstone, a Stanley, or a Nansen, those intrepid explorers of the unknown regions of Darkest Africa and the frozen North. Surely those other explorers who invaded an equally unknown realm of natural law and physical forces, who have enabled us to substitute comfort able clothing for the skins of wild beasts, who have given us warm, lighted, and happy homes in exchange for the cave of ...
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Excerpt from The Marvels of Modern Mechanism: And Their Relation to Social Betterment The world thrills at the recital of the deeds of a Livingstone, a Stanley, or a Nansen, those intrepid explorers of the unknown regions of Darkest Africa and the frozen North. Surely those other explorers who invaded an equally unknown realm of natural law and physical forces, who have enabled us to substitute comfort able clothing for the skins of wild beasts, who have given us warm, lighted, and happy homes in exchange for the cave of the savage, cold, dark, and reeking with moisture, who have made it possible to heap our breakfast tables with the choicest food products of a dozen countries, who have given us quick and easy communications with our loved ones at a distance, whose discoveries have eradicated some diseases and rendered all others less terrible; who, in short, have made our lives full, rich, and worth living, are entitled to some evi dence of our appreciation. Society accepts these benefits as unconcernedly as though they had always existed, but they have been bought at the expense not only of toil, but often of privation, suffering, and ruin. Frequently have the lives of inventors been threatened and their property destroyed by the people who had most to gain by their inventions. Often they have been dead and forgotten before the world was sufii18 introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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