Picture a time of incredible change and rapid progress!
The certainties of yesterday are lost in the progress of today.
As one writer enthuses: “Let the great world spin forever down the ringing groves of change!”
Another significant national leader says in a speech:
“Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to ... our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points ... the unity of mankind [sic]. ....
The distances which separated the different nations and parts of the globe are rapidly vanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible ease; the languages of all nations are known, and their acquirement placed within the reach of everybody; thought is communicated with the rapidity, and even by the power, of lightning. ...”
