show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways! i might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but i repeat in our century of vices and railways, because i am drunk but truthful! show me a single idea which unites men nowadays with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the ‘springs of life’ have not been polluted and weakened beneath this ‘star,’ beneath this network in which men are entangled!