new conditions. The prophecy of Carlyle had come true, when he said that To make railways and steamboats carry letters was much, in the evolution A new interdependent form of civilization was about to be developed, and "men cannot now be bound to men by brass collars; you will have to bind closest touch with many others. a new ideal method of communication that had been made indispensable by lived over his store now ventured to have a home in the suburbs. No man was more, because of the instantaneous transmission of important news. a single part of a social mechanism, who must necessarily keep in the interdependent nations to handle themselves and to hold together. them by other far nobler and cunninger methods." the feet had become railways, so the voice became the telephone. It was the eye had become the telescope, and the hand had become machinery, and putting the people of each nation within hearing distance of each seventy men cooperated to make one shoe. The merchant who had hitherto farther and put all civilized people within sight of each other, so that they could communicate by a sort of deaf and dumb alphabet. And then Railways and steamships had begun this work of binding man to man by came the telephone, giving direct instantaneous communication and workable and convenient. It was the unfolding of a new organ. Just as was any longer a self-sufficient Robinson Crusoe. He was a fraction, dawn. The cobbler had given place to the elaborate factory, in which the telephone arrived in the nick of time to make this new civilization other. It was the completion of a long series of inventions. It was the keystone of the arch. It was the one last improvement that enabled of the means of communication. To make the electric wire carry signals "nobler and cunninger methods." The telegraph and cable had gone still