Nothing could more effectively illustrate the ideal of international peaceful co-operation to which hopeful historians look forward than this photograph of the representatives of all the leading Powers of the world, met together at The Hague, in the year 1907, to promote the amity of nations and the eventual abolition of war.
LARGER IMAGE
THE HIGHER PROGRESS OF MANKIND
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SPIRITUAL culture may develop in the directions of knowing and of feeling. These two forms of the manifestation of consciousness are originally not to be separated from each other; but as time goes on, a preponderance of one or the other becomes noticeable. Language is the first result of spiritual culture: the communication of thoughts by means of words (sound pictures of ideas). Language arises from the necessities of life, from the need for communication among the members of a social aggregate.
GUTENBERG, THE INVENTOR OF PRINTING
Nothing has eclipsed the printing press as an agency of man’s intellectual and spiritual advancement.