Such a change as had come over the human mind in the ...
Such a change as had come over the human mind in the sixteenth century, when the earth expanded from Europe to a globe, was coming over it again.
Now space was shrinking, time expanding.
The earth had given up her most mysterious secret when in 1856 Speke stood on the shores of Victoria Nyanza and saw the Nile pouring northward. The Atlantic cable was laid at last in 1866. Even in domestic life the contraction was making it felt: the Metropolis was becoming compact: its satellite villages, from Blackheath round to Chiswick, sub-urban.
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But as the home of mankind grew smaller to the imagination, so ...
But as the home of mankind grew smaller to the imagination, so the history of the race was perceived to I remarked to an old Gladstonian how quiet the Election of 1935 had be
But the idea of progress-achieved by experiment, consolidated by law or custom, ...
But the idea of progress-achieved by experiment, consolidated by law or custom, registered by statistics-had, without much straining of
The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one ...
The human mind is still something of a troglodyte.
Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.