. Liverpool . % pmmffi n$J. THE HORNBY LIBRARY. THE SUBURBS 97 who now migrate with the utmost non-chalance from, say, Kirkdale to Aigburth,confident of finding somewhere there pre-cisely the strata to which they have beenaccustomed, would have looked on such aflight only last generation as being almostas impossible, almost as profoundlycharged with social significations, as atransfer from Poplar to Park Lane; andwere content, as I well know, to live anddie and inherit without stirring, withoutdreaming of forsaking an equally staticcoterie of friends. Well, the chief agentin breaking down thes
. Liverpool . % pmmffi n$J. THE HORNBY LIBRARY. THE SUBURBS 97 who now migrate with the utmost non-chalance from, say, Kirkdale to Aigburth,confident of finding somewhere there pre-cisely the strata to which they have beenaccustomed, would have looked on such aflight only last generation as being almostas impossible, almost as profoundlycharged with social significations, as atransfer from Poplar to Park Lane; andwere content, as I well know, to live anddie and inherit without stirring, withoutdreaming of forsaking an equally staticcoterie of friends. Well, the chief agentin breaking down these social divisionswas also that art of locomotion to theencouragement of which Liverpool as Ihave said, has so peculiarly devoted her-self, and the latest, the most democratic,and the most mobile of the creations ofthat art, the electric car, has inevitablyincreased that fluidity in a very remark-able degree.* The overhead wires that * It is impossible to doubt that Liverpoolsconspicuous devotion to the business of loco-mot
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