_We_--Why "_we_"?
What have you and I had to do with the new inventions in electricity or mechanics or the conquest of the air?
Not one single, solitary thing! The progress of the world has been made through the efforts of a few solitary, exceptional, rare individuals, not by the combined efforts of us all.

You and I are as common, unprogressive, uninventive, indifferent mediocrities as we--the common people--always were.

We have not contributed one iota to all this progress, and I often question whether mud; of it comes to us more fraught with good than evil.

We claim the results without engaging in the work.

We use the 'phone and worry because Central doesn't get us our connections immediately, when we haven't the faintest conception of how the connection is gained, or why we are delayed.