Identifier: from1800to1900wo00morr (find matches)
Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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be increased, yet natural limitations must check itsindefinite increase. The same may be said in regard to steamship travel, itappearing that any great future increase of speed must be at an increasedratio of cost so considerable as to bring development in this direction to aspeedy termination. Of course, we are speaking only from our present point of view. It isquite possible that some new and luminous conceptions may break downthe bars which now appear to be erected and open the way for new progressin all these directions. \ it seems safe to assert, as a general principle,that development in any one direction can go on only unto a certain point,and that the limitations of nature must check it at that point. We cannot, indeed, well conceive of a greater activity of inventionand a more rapid unfoldment of new processes than we have had before usin the nineteenth century. But an equal activity may long continue. While 3 O a -i W ft «< ft S i w -3 -, IS » c PI 3 H S3 < s _o p-i.
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