In such a way Babylon rose and fell, and Nineveh, and Thebes, and Carthage, and Rome.

Mere bulk, unorganized, becomes its own destroyer.

It dies of clogging and congestion.

But when Stephenson's Rocket ran twenty-nine miles an hour, and Morse's telegraph clicked its signals from Washington to Baltimore, and Bell's telephone flashed the vibrations of speech between Boston and Salem, a new era began.

In came the era of speed and the finely organized nations.