 | David Goodman - 1994 - 344 pages
...inventions', and that the result would be the realisation of the unity of mankind—'not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics...very national varieties and antagonistic qualities'. 49 To attempt to understand these societies outside the context of this commerce and communication,... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics...separated the different nations and parts of the globe are rapidlyvanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Auerbach - 1999 - 300 pages
...accomplish that great end - to which all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind. . . . The distances which separated the different nations...globe are rapidly vanishing before the achievements of modern invention. . . . The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we... | |
 | Joseph McLaughlin - 2000 - 260 pages
...end to which, indeed, all history points—the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits, and levels the peculiar characteristics...separated the different nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible... | |
 | Pieter van Wesemael - 2001 - 856 pages
...end to which, indeed, all history points - the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits, and levels the peculiar characteristics...separated the different nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can transverse them with incredible... | |
 | Joseph Bizup - 2003 - 260 pages
...unity of mankind" (3). For Albert, this "great end" is not a condition of universal uniformity, which "levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth," but rather "the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities." Like Coleridge,... | |
 | James Buzard - 2009 - 336 pages
...limits, and level [] the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the Earth," but would be "the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities." 19 The Crystal Palace gave Dickens the stimulus to produce a work in many respects more determinedly... | |
 | Ana Filipa Vrdoljak - 2006 - 29 pages
...great end, to which, all history points - the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics...very national varieties and antagonistic qualities. Whilst formerly the greatest mental energies strove at universal knowledge, and that knowledge, was... | |
 | R. Angus Buchanan - 2006 - 338 pages
...end - to which indeed all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind; not a unity that breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics...of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.45 As far as Prince Albert was concerned, the Exhibition was intended to be the first great... | |
 | Richard Reeves - 2008 - 232 pages
...that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind . . . The distances which separated the different nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible... | |
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... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points— the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar... 
