LORD SALISBURY ON ELECTRICITY AND CIVILIZATION.
Speaking at the first annual dinner of tb© lostitijt'on of Eleoirica.
Engineers, Lord Salisbury dwelt tip on tho immense possibilities tha were before electricity. I have ofte* thought, he said, that if history wer more philosophically written, insteai of boing divided according to tin domination of particular dynasties o the Buprmemacy of particular racea it would b ■» cut off into compartment* indicated by the influence of par tioular discoveries upon the destiuie. of mankind. Speaking only of thesi modern times you would have ar «poch marked by the discovery o; •gunpowder, an epoch marked by the (discovery of the printing press, ac ■epoch marked by the discovery of the steam engine. ,Thosp discoveries have { afc influence infinitely more powerful, not only U p on the collective destinies, npon the daily life and exporienc^pf pAultififdea ol h'umari be,' lB g g 'than even the Vnreers of the, greatest conquerors, to? tlie dbvices ""of the greatest statesmen. . Ii? the list which our "ignoraneb •of Etneie^ t history m its 689*»-_ttri»l charact^ fpibicia' us tp make *3 Kuig>i np^ub^t it jaig^t bejm&de, ihe' ]q$ competitor for notice, but not the leastfis tlie so.ehce of elec- , *.icifcy ' I Mtik the I._a.Q-ial_.' the * ' ftit*arß,%hett'li^MsliaclC will coMzo .^ali ibere Ms. jm n, a y lar^tr . in|uin^P»: ttft desitiaies of mankind efercised^ Ma «to»n^'* «h^ ftß.- ----, olnating dieco?ety thnh" by .the Q^avgicxyi of .lie steam ehgrae i itself became it ,i;. a discovei^ that op rates SOiiiam'ediately: u^ii * moral ■ $ifak?kindt, . __C@. ; ,^^'«-haV-.fbe *• i^etueudoius power- of. staiidiug lii'lljiea of idle pp«seut -day Vas chiefly due to olectricit£, 6ut, oii the oiber handj thb; tHstri^ulioti of forces which i 4 proiiiised'wodd, he v honed, , leAd^tb^he so|i,4tJo^ : pf i hose'., gv eat a^r«g*ttious of huniiyii-y wliich had " bbon "qne of the loaßfc of the merits of ,; tTa^ steam enginb. * ; ';"'
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 January 1890, Page 2
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305LORD SALISBURY ON ELECTRICITY AND CIVILIZATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 January 1890, Page 2
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