Identifier: reviewofreviewsw31newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hile WendellPhillips, in the ftdl intellectual light of modernNew Kngland, ehxiuently point»>d to it as aproof of his favorite theme, •• There is nothingnew under the sun. Nevertheless, Pittsburgs industries, modestly nestling among gently rolling hills and beneatnprecipitous blufTs, transport many miles to andfro. raise and lower hundreds of feet, and trans-form iniirb/ into the bones and sinews of civili-zation the weiijld of a iIdzcii (iredt Pyramids. Th tyrant, (heops, deprived his toiling slavesof even their religious rites and festivals, inorder to hasten the completion of liis monumen-tal tomb. The workers of Pittsburg produce the mate-rials which aild to the activity, comfort, andhappinissof millions of peoj)le, whih; they them-Kflves are able to enjoy, not only freedom, butmany romforts and luxuries unknown to theroyal tyrant himself. Rightly undtM-stood, the (Jreat Pyramid is asplendid monument to the material and socialprogress of the worM during the last four thou-
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.\ HKI.IKK MAI OF IMTTSIUUO, A I.I.K( i II KN V. .VM> VKIMTV. (1, Pittsburg; iJ, Alleglieiiy ; 3, McKeesport : 4. Braddock; .>. Homestead ; 6. WilkiiisburK; 7. Duquesiie; 8. .Sharpsburg;9, Millvale; 10. McKees Rocks; 11, Etna; 12, Wilmerding; 13, Rankin; U. Kno.wille; 15, Belleviie; 16. Turtle Creek;17, East Pittsburg; ltd ; 2.5. West Liberty. Map from data of the Inited States Geological Survey made in 1908, and constructed underthe auspices of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce.) 50 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. sand years. Its history extends from the timewhen the hiborer was a beast oC burden to thepresent age of mechanical appliances, when theworkers direct the forces of nature for the bene-fit of man. This is the new thing under the sun,—theutilization of natural forces to replace the en-slavement of men. It lies at the foundation ofPittsburgs supremacy

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