This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...left in place. We are the borderers of civilization in America, but borderers of the nineteenth century, when all distances are lessened, whether moral or physical. And then, as borderers, we also often act as pioneers; the peculiar tendencies of the age are seen more clearly among us than in Europe. The civilization ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...left in place. We are the borderers of civilization in America, but borderers of the nineteenth century, when all distances are lessened, whether moral or physical. And then, as borderers, we also often act as pioneers; the peculiar tendencies of the age are seen more clearly among us than in Europe. The civilization of the present is far more subtle in its character than that of the past, and its works are naturally like itself, highly influential, and important, but less dignified, and imposing in aspect. It would be comparatively an easy work to remove from the earth all traces of many of the peculiar merits of modern civilization, just as the grand Palace of Glass, now standing in London, that brilliant and characteristic work of the day, might in a few hours be utterly razed. Look at our light suspension bridges, marvellous as they are, how soon they could be destroyed; look at our railways, at our ships and manufactories moved by steam; look at the marvellous electric telegraph, at the wonders Daguerre has showed us--look, in fact, at any of the peculiar and most remarkable of the works of the age, and see how speedily all traces of them could be removed. It will be said that the most important of all arts, that of printing, must suffice in itself to preserve all other discoveries: assuredly; but remove the art of printing, bring fresh hordes of barbarians to sweep over the civilized world, let them busy themselves with the task of destruction, and say then what traces of our works would remain on the face of the earth as monuments of our period. Perchance, as regards America, the chief proofs that eastern civilization had once passed over this country would then be found in the mingled vegetation, the trees, the plants, ay, the very weeds of the old ...
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