Did he wish to communicate with the outside
world, he strolled into the telegraph office. A few short months
before he would have written a letter and deemed himself favoured
above mortals were it delivered within the year.
From man's drawing the world closer and closer together, his own
affairs and institutions have consolidated. Concentration may typify
the chief movement of the age--concentration, classification, order;
the reduction of friction between the parts of the social organism.
The urban tendency of the rural populations led to terrible
congestion in the great cities. There was stifling and impure air,
and lo, rapid transit at once attacked the evil. Every great city
has become but the nucleus of a greater city which surrounds it; the
one the seat of business, the other the seat of domestic happiness.
Between the two, night and morning, by electric road, steam railway,
and bicycle path, ebbs and flows the middle-class population. And in
the same direction lies the remedy for the tenement evil.
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