Speed of the Age: Automobiles and Electric Railways
THIS is a fast age. This truth was remarked years ago, before the invention of the automobile, in which men now travel on good country roads at a speed of from fifty to eighty miles an hour. Last summer, in an automobile race from Paris to Berlin, eighty miles an hour was attained by some of the contestants where the roads were favorable. And even this is not enough, for now the Electrical World and Engineer comes forward with the statement that a speed of one hundred and twenty-five miles an hour will “no doubt” be attained over the electric railway about to be opened between Berlin and Zossen, in Prussia, “provided the track and roadbed will permit.” Truly, things are moving rapidly these days, and the rapidity shown in the physical world has its counterpart in the moral and spiritual world, though the speed with which things are moving may be more perceptible in the former than in the latter. But we ought to be awake to the spiritual signs of the times no less than to those of a physical nature.