"Transmittal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that written speech is eminently fitted for preservation. Without the transmittal of ideas from one generation to another, intellectual progress is impossible. Such transmittal, before the invention of writing, was effected solely by memory. The father spoke to the son, and he, remembering what was said, told it, in turn, to the grandson. This is tradition, sometimes marvellously ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... among the Indians have made it possible to preserve their songs without change from one generation to another. Many curious and interesting proofs of accuracy of transmittal have come to my knowledge during the past twenty years, while studying these ...
— Indian Story and Song - from North America • Alice C. Fletcher
... of his work, to which Blunt refers in his letter to Curtis of November 30, were passed by the Cherokee National Council, October 20, 1863. The text of them is to be found, as also Chief Christie's letter of transmittal, in Official Records, ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel |
