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A new world of inventions--of railways and of telegraphs--has grown up around us which we cannot help seeing; a new world of ideas is in the air and affects us, though we do not see it.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot describes the emergence of new inventions and ideas that shape society, even if they are not immediately visible.
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