The Bicycle and Motor Car 



hardly by the most biassed pleading be shown 

 to have made men happier or better. 



We now receive news sooner than we did 

 and whether we become aware of the death 

 of a relative to-day or to-morrow matters not 

 at all, except to bring our misfortune, if it be 

 one, to us quicker. 



In illness the telegraph and the tele- 

 phone share the responsibility of bringing 

 the doctor faster than before to the bedside 

 with whatever result may ensue therefrom. 

 I know of no statistics that will serve to 

 decide whether that confers a benefit or not 

 to mankind. But conceding that it be a 

 benefit, it is easily outweighed by the count- 

 less impertinent intrusions upon our privacy 

 and our peace that those tiresome inventions 

 have inflicted upon us while we are in the 

 enjoyment of health. 



But there can be no doubt that both the 

 bicycle and the motor car have put it in the 

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