Wysocki Gehret
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2010年 4月 22日 (木) 02:06:56 JST
He square, pale-yellow, compact, brochure which makes its appearance once a month, and which has doubled its thickness in its brief existence of five years--is suggestive of a multitude of thoughts concerning the silent revolution now passing over Europe. Presidents may have _coups d'etat_; kings may put down parliaments, and emperors abrogate constitutions; Legitimists may dream of the past, and Communists of the future; but the _railways_ are marking out a path for themselves in Europe which will tend to obliterate, or at least to soften, the rugged social barriers which separate nation from nation. This will not be effected all at once, and many enthusiasts are disappointed that the cosmopolitanism advances so slowly; but the result is not the less certain in being slow. Our facetious contemporary _Punch_ once gave a railway map of England, in which the face of the land was covered with intersecting lines at mutual distances of only a mile or two. A railway map of Europe has certainly not yet assumed such a labyrinthine charact -------------- next part -------------- $B%F%-%9%H7A<00J30$NE:IU%U%!%$%k$rJ]4I$7$^$7$?(B... $B%U%!%$%kL>(B: directive.zip $B7?(B: application/octet-stream $B%5%$%:(B: 695 $B%P%$%H(B $B @ bL@(B: $BL5$7(B 下载