Reminiscences / by George Henry Fox.

  • George Henry Fox
Date:
1926
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Reminiscences / by George Henry Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and then drew nearer to the post. I saw it plainly, felt an instinctive dread of it, excited my brain and muscle to the utmost to avoid it but— ran right into it and fell with a disagreeable thud. How many bicycle beginners have been drawn into this same psychic maelstrom! I later be¬ came a fairly expert rider and my recollections of delightful trips with pleasant company in Jerse}7', Long Island, up the Hudson, through the Berkshires and along the Massachusetts coast invariably give me a thrill of keenest pleasure. At the Crystal Palace in London not many years ago I remember paying sixpence to ride slowly around a small ring in what was termed the horseless carriage.” It was generally re¬ garded as a mere toy and no one imagined that within a score of years millons of such machines would be running at from thirty to fifty miles an hour through every civilized country on the face of the globe. It seems but yesterday that nearly every one walking on Fifth Avenue stopped to look at an automobile while now it is the rare spectacle of a fine span of carriage horses that attracts attention. At the close of our civil war every student of history and very many others thought that they knew all that could be known of modern war¬ fare. How very little they knew in comparison with what the present generation has learned during the past few years. For more than thirty
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