Capitolo 27
all contract, the load of all the debts."
In the other words, reporting himself/herself/itself to the first halves the sixteenth one
century,--the sixty years, we will say, while following the earth-fall of
Columbus,--the historian attributed the great change that then you/he/she happened
and what it is standing before so markedly in history, to they increased him
Production of New-world of the precious metals, combined with the impetus
datum to deal and industry as a consequence of that discovery, and of
man's dominion on additional areas of globe. Now, dismissing from
consideration the so defined system protective American, likewise our
generally, public currency and the patchwork, so to speak, of
legislation of crazy-comforter to that so a lot you/he/she is attributed during the last one
thirty years, I confidently submit that in the production of the results
under the discussion, they is not really quantity and factors I deign of
consideration. The cause of the change that has taken place lies far
more depth and you/he/she must be looks for in the influences of a completely different nature,
influences developed in an it increased and never still increasing
activity on which legislation completely it doesn't have control. Me check, of
course, to man's dominion on the latent strengths of Nature. Of these
Vapor and the electricity are the great examples that, because always
apparent, immediately strikes the imagination. These, as you equip it has to be
remembered, both together practically back from in one hundred years. It is able,
indeed is affirmed in safe, that above to 1815, the end of the Wars of
Napoleon and Teacher Lieber's time, you vaporize not also had as
it practically struck still the operations of man, while the electricity, when
not a terror, was still as but a toy. I still deal it was exclusively
continued by the sailing ship and channel-boat. The years from the autumn
of Napoleon to our his/her own War of Secession--from Waterloo to
Gettysburg--it was practically those of first and partial development. Not
up to that or well after Appomattox, since the year 1870,--a period