[The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magnificent Ambersons CHAPTER XIX 8/12
They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring.
They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.
I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles; just how, though, I could hardly guess.
But you can't have the immense outward changes that they will cause without some inward ones, and it may be that George is right, and that the spiritual alteration will be bad for us.
Perhaps, ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine, but would have to agree with him that automobiles 'had no business to be invented.'" He laughed good-naturedly, and looking at his watch, apologized for having an engagement which made his departure necessary when he would so much prefer to linger.
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