The Bicycle and Motor Car 



" Clothing the palpable and familiar 

 With golden exhalations of the dawn." 



The mind is soothed by the ever-changing 

 scenes of beauty, anxieties seem to be blown 

 away from us by the swift passage of the air, 

 all resentments are assuaged, the sweet 

 beauty of England fills the heart with a love 

 of our country that attains to adoration ; and 

 we return home at last with a sense of bene- 

 diction, happier, better, and fitter for the 

 work that we must resume once more. 



The motor car and the bicycle then are 

 the two undoubtedly beneficent inventions 

 that Science has conferred upon a world 

 which it has otherwise physically defaced and 

 ruined, and morally degraded and defiled 

 past hope, past cure. 



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