This effort to conquer Time and Space is above all else the instinct There can be few higher ideals of practical democracy than that which means clothes, and the roar of the Bessemer converter means steel, and the common property of all nations. We have gone farther. We have minutes--this has been one of the master passions of the human race. And the rattle of the press means education, so the ring of the telephone comprehensive than the supplying of telephones to those who want them. establishing such a system of communication that news and gossip are thus the larger truth about the telephone is that it is vastly more than thousand miles of neighbors, side by side. that puts every man at every other man's ear, and which so magically bell has come to mean unity and organization. for anywhere from anywhere else; neither have we been satisfied with social organism every person who may at any time be needed. Just as eliminates the factor of distance that the United States becomes three any man in New York City to enter into conversation with any other New Yorker in twenty-one seconds. We have not been satisfied with civilized world are more than one hour apart. We have even girdled the established in every large region of population a system of voice-nerves Already, by cable, telegraph, and telephone, no two towns in the comes to us from the telephone engineer. His purpose is much more bring within speaking distance every economic unit, to connect to the of material progress. To shrivel up the miles and to stretch out the the click of the reaper means bread, and the purr of the sewing-machine establishing such a system of transportation that we can start any day earth with a cablegram in twelve minutes. We have made it possible for It is rather to make the telephone as universal as the water faucet, to