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  2. GLIMPSES OF THE CENTURY.

    The Church of England has kept adjusting itself to the progress of the century -- industrial, political, scientific, and historic progress. As a specimen, taking external things first, at ...

    Article : 442 words
  3. LITERATURE.

    Poetry and philosophy show a fine record for the hundred years. In the beginning of the century, Byron, Scott, Campbell, Shelley, Moore, Wordsworth, Rogers, Coleridge, Southey, and Poo ...

    Article : 729 words
  4. DENTISTRY.

    About the year 1840 attention was attracted to the unsatisfactory state of affairs regarding dentistry both in England and America. In each of these countries strenuous efforts were ...

    Article : 296 words
  5. COMMERCE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 473 words
  6. MARINE TRANSPORT.

    The commercial progress of the past century is unprecedented in history, and would probably represent a greater volume than that of the preceding four or five centuries. ...

    Article : 315 words
  7. ASTRONOMY.

    Precise astronomical methods may safely be said to have commenced during the first few years of the century, and wonderful has been the progress in all departments of the sublimest of ...

    Article : 616 words
  8. LIFE ASSURANCE.

    In England, the birthplace of life assurance, there were not more than four or five offices transacting this class of business a hundred years ago, whereas now its ramifications extend throughout ...

    Article : 382 words
  9. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

    The birth and progress of electrical engineering rank undisputedly as one of the greatest marvels of the period under notice. Comparatively young men can recollect when the ...

    Article : 504 words
  10. ARCHITECTURE.

    Advancement, yes; progress -- that's another matter. Compared with the two centuries previous, there is much room for pride; compared ...

    Article : 475 words
  11. METEOROLOGY.

    From classic times down to the commencement of this century it can hardly be said that meteorology made any advance, for prognostics of weather were based on close observation of ...

    Article : 403 words
  12. BANKING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 788 words
  13. CYCLING.

    It is hard to condense into a small space the developments of the bicycle during the century. Few of the present generation remember the "hobby horse" of 1818, and its adherents were ...

    Article : 294 words
  14. MALARIA.

    The close of the century has witnessed very great developments in our knowledge of the nature and treatment of malaria. Thanks to the labors of Laveran, Celli, Ross, Koch, and others. ...

    Article : 248 words
  15. LABOR IN LEGISLATION.

    In no field of human activity has the period under review been so marked as in that of production. It has been a time of machine industry, of centralisation of labor, of trade ...

    Article : 478 words
  16. AUTOMOBILISM.

    As the early years of the century saw the creation of the steam engine and its adaptation to locomotion on railways, so its closing days have witnessed the dawn of a new era of road and ...

    Article : 329 words
  17. MILITARY.

    British military advance during a hundred years is scarcely a subject to be compressed into a short paragraph; but this condition must be adhered to, and there is no more room for apologies. ...

    Article : 731 words
  18. ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

    It is only during the last two decades that electric lighting has come into prominence. Indeed, now the hum of the dynamo has become the universal tongue of the world, and electric ...

    Article : 307 words
  19. MEDICINE.

    In the enormous strides made by all branches of science during the last hundred years, the science of medicine has more than held its own. As a mailer of fact, it has only during that ...

    Article : 403 words
  20. DEALING WITH THE INSANE.

    The treatment of the insane is almost altogether under State direction, in hospitals specially built and adapted for their care and treatment, and there is perhaps no feature in the history of the ...

    Article : 339 words
  21. ART.

    The beginning of the eighteenth century found the arts of painting and sculpture sunk deep in a slough of mediocrity. Unnatural historical pieces, so-called classical subjects, and huge, ...

    Article : 467 words
  22. BRIDGE BUILDING.

    Although bridge building dates from the earliest ages of the world, there was, when the 19th century opened, a great movement in the art. Science was at that time being brought to bear ...

    Article : 785 words
  23. LABOR AND UNIONISM.

    No interest in Australia has grown more rapidly in strength and power than that of labor. From a state of bondage, it has evolved to one of freedom, progress, and enlightenment. Two factors ...

    Article : 363 words
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