Download or read book An Industrial History of the American People (Classic Reprint) written by J. R. H. Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Industrial History of the American People IN order to understand the reasons for the discovery of the New World, we must turn back in European history to a won derful time called the Renaissance, ' at the end of the Middle Ages. During this period, from the fourteenth century ou, through at least two centuries, the minds of men awoke from the slumber of the Dark Ages, and within a very few generations civilization made greater advances in many directions than the previous thousand years had seen. These advances occurred in education, in painting, sculpture, architecture, religion, and in all things that pertain to learning, but the most important advance came in a changed attitude towards life. Men wanted to know more of the earth itself, and to enjoy it more. Ig norance, energy, and curiosity united to produce the most as tonishing results; for example, it was man's very ignorance of real conditions that gave him the courage to make long voy ages on unknown waters. Dissatisfaction with the old order of afiairs was in the air, and it needed only a little thing to attract the attention of the awakening world. 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.