Nicolas Joly
Published: 2017-11-08
Total Pages: 388
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Excerpt from Man Before Metals Man has conquered the elements the winds obey him as his slaves, and soon, perhaps, ships of a new kind will cut their way through the regions of the air as safely as vessels now traverse the vast extent of the ocean. Fire has become a liquid in his hands.1 The earth, subjected to an universal analysis, reveals her secrets one by one. In short his genius daily invents wonders, which, surprising as they are, now appear so natural that the bare mention here made of them may appear common-place to the reader. Man, I repeat, knows not his own nature nor his own history. Yet nothing of greater moment could be present ed as the object of his study, of his active curiosity, and of his eager desire to learn the origin and nature of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.