And then-- But gracious, this is getting upon things controversial, and if there is anything in this world that I do hybominate, it is controversy! Few of the wondrous changes which the Age of Miracles has wrought in my day and generation exceeded those of ocean travel.

The modern liner is but a moving palace.

Between the ports of the Old World and the ports of the new the transit is so uneventful as to grow monotonous.

There are no more adventures on the high seas.

The ocean is a thoroughfare, the crossing a ferry.