...Adam Smith, who, excepting not even the Incarnation, proclaimed "[t]he discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, . . . the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind" (2.141). This tardy English response...

...Smith proclaimed it in the birth year of the American Republic: "The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind."2 Today, as this vision shoulders aside...

...place of Asia in it. Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations in 1776: The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind. (Smith [1776] 1937: 557) Marx and Engels'...

...As Raynal announced in the f1rst sentence of his f1rst volume, the "discovery of the new world, and the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope," had obviously turned out to be "one of the most important events in the history of the human species....

...events in history. As Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations (1776): "The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind." Marx, too, saw these two dates as...

...tradition of adjustability. Why India is poor? Adam Smith once remarked, "The discovery of America and the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope are the two great events recorded in the history of mankind". In the fifteenth century AD, Columbus...

...screw propeller in a sea way. Would not vessels upon1 thto principle be extremely well adapted for the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope? The challenge to run the Ruby against any vessel afloat has It appears been accepted — bat Mr. Billings...