The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Scientific and Railway Gazette, 1850, Vol. 13 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Scientific and Railway Gazette, 1850, Vol. 13

History is universally allowed to be one of the most interesting and instructive studies that can occupy the attention of a think ing being. Not the mere chronicle of reigning monarchs and party factions; not the record of perpetually recurring war, with its consequent suffering and crime, but the history of the human race in its gradual development; of civilisation in its progressive and retrograde movements; of religion and commerce; of litera ture, art, and science: the history of all those things the cultiva tion of which have wrought the change from the ignorant savage, but little superior to the flocks and herds that clothed and gave him food, to the moral and intellectual man he was destined to become.

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