THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY.
Lord Avebury, writing to the "New York Times" the other day, remarked: "Though not 80, I am older than any railway company in the worid, any gaa company.any steamboat company, any telegraph, telephone, or electric light company." "One need only ponder these words," says the World's Work, "and pondering is re» quired before it is possible to realise that they can be true, to get (a sense of the world of yesterday. No electric light, no telephone—any man of forty can remember that he lived in that world, but nobody can quite remember what it was like. Fifty years ago all Africa, except its coast, was a blank on the map; Asia was a dwelling-place of mystery; Japan was unborn; United Italy had no existence, and the German Empire was still a dream. Transportation was primitive, business was done on the basis of the country store; the feats of modern engineerins were unattempted; electricity was an interesting toy; machinery had only begun its revolutionising
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 29 April 1910, Page 4
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169THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 29 April 1910, Page 4
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