CHAPTER X 



THE BICYCLE AND MOTOR CAR 



" Her silent course advance 

 With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps 

 On her soft axle while she paces even 

 And bears thee soft with the smooth air along." 



Milton. 



NEXT to railways there appear to be three 

 inventions of Science which have most for- 

 cibly intruded upon daily life and funda- 

 mentally modified our habits. 



These are telegraphy, exclusive of the 

 wireless kind but including the telephone, 

 the bicycle and the motor car. 



I do not include printing, for though in- 

 genious and of vast benefit to mankind, it 

 requires no more acquaintance with Science 

 for its original invention than did a tie-clip. 



The telegraph and the telephone can 

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