Inevitably, an untelephoned nation is less social, less unified, less progressive, and less efficient.

It belongs to an inferior species.
How to make a civilization that is organized and quick, instead of a barbarism that was chaotic and slow--that is the universal human problem, not wholly solved to-day.

And how to develop a science of intercommunication, which commenced when the wild animals began to travel in herds and to protect themselves from their enemies by a language of danger-signals, and to democratize this science until the entire nation becomes self-conscious and able to act as one living being--that is the part of this universal problem which finally necessitated the invention of the telephone.
With the use of the telephone has come a new habit of mind.

The slow and sluggish mood has been sloughed off.

The old to-morrow habit has been superseded by "Do It To-day"; and life has become more tense, alert, vivid.