Famous Quotes | As he grew accustomed to the...
As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross. The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old-fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm’s-length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring,—scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair’s-breadth further for respect of power,—while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Attribution: Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. The Education of Henry B. Adams, p. 1067, Library of America (1983).
Categories: Dynamos, Historian, Religion
