The discovery of poverty

The “discovery” of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the “discovery” of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived. Barbara Ehrenreich

In the world’s history

In the world’s history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing – the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first … is unknown; but it … Read more