Excerpt from The Social Unrest, Vol. 2 of 2: Capital, Labor, and the Public in Turmoil
Taking that sweeping backward look essential to a proper perspective of the chaotic present, one sees To-day as the evolution of these Yesterdays:
Two full generations of incredible material advance, during which civilized men made such conquest of Nature's forces, Nature's hidden wealth, Nature's unguessed secrets, as produced an utterly new world. For that period at the middle of the 19th century which saw earth and ocean and air tied together into business unity by railroads, ocean liners, telegraphs and cables; which beheld the discovery of anthracite and the general use of coal, the finding of gold in Australia and California, of petroleum in Pennsylvania; which witnessed the installation of steam as man's industrial and household Genius; (not to mention the reaper, the sewing machine, commercial steel, and the first express system) - that pregnant twenty years surely marks an epoch.
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