They did not very greatly alter the weaponsand tactics of warfare, the methods of agriculture, seamanship, theirknowledge of the habitable globe, or the devices and utensils ofdomestic life between the days of the early Egyptians and the days whenChristopher Columbus was a child. Of course, there were inventions andchanges, but there were also retrogressions; things were found out andthen forgotten again; it was, on the whole, a progress, but it containedno steps; the peasant life was the same, there... read more
