The Gold Fields Of Australasia

Author : James Wyld
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396698491
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Gold Fields of Australia written by James Wyld and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gold Fields of Australia: Notes on the Distribution of Gold Throughout the World, Including Australia, California, and Russia It is interesting to look back and to make out the development of events, but it is no less so to see them pass before our eyes to be present and to take part in them, and we have now arrived at a period far more important than that which we have just contemplated. Circumstances external to those which we have for our special subject and consideration, have been no less in fluential than they in giving it this character. The establish; nient of the locomotive and the ocean steamer, the laying down of the telegraphic wire, the discovery of electro-metallurgy, and the application of the daguerreotype, create a new era' in the practical arts; but never, perhaps, has the progress of science been more extraordinary. The advancement of the electro magnetic sciences, of geology, of ethnology, and of the econo mical sciences, has done much to liberate mankind from de pendence and dogmatism, and to direct them to original research, while there have been those events in politics, in religion, and in social economy, which show that some great action on the human mind is in progress. At this time, when in addition to the gold workings of Russia and Virgin discoveries in Australia and California have opened a eld for enter prise, which has set the nations of the world in movement, the position of the English race is still more striking than it was three centuries and a half ago. By two great empires it now keeps a great part of the world under its influence; on the shores of the Atlantic, of the Pacific, and of the Indian Ocean, our settlements are the means of awakening enterprise, and give us the opportunity of profiting by each new event; from the Icy Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, America belongs to our people Australia we have encompasse'd, and marked out its destinies, and in the south of Asia hundreds of millions already own us as their masters. 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.