The Wheel and cycling trade review . nds supreme every-where among the potent and beneficialmechanisms of civilization. So rapid, sowholly unprecedented, so wonderful has beenthe development of cycling that it seems al-most impossible that within the short periodof a few years it has grown up and thrivedthe world over until it now has attained thepinnacle of popular applause and homage. Like the mighty genii of fabled ages, thatrose from nothing into immensities thatspread their pall upon whole worlds, so thisgreat genii of nineteenth century civilizationhas sprung up almost in a day, spreadin
The Wheel and cycling trade review . nds supreme every-where among the potent and beneficialmechanisms of civilization. So rapid, sowholly unprecedented, so wonderful has beenthe development of cycling that it seems al-most impossible that within the short periodof a few years it has grown up and thrivedthe world over until it now has attained thepinnacle of popular applause and homage. Like the mighty genii of fabled ages, thatrose from nothing into immensities thatspread their pall upon whole worlds, so thisgreat genii of nineteenth century civilizationhas sprung up almost in a day, spreading farand wide the net of its influence, forcing itsway into all avocations, making itself feltalike in politics and business, affecting boththe individual and the community, the ham-let and the Nation. It has changed the face of history, andbent the forces of the law to its own potent in its infancy than any likefactor of civilization has ever been, it reachesout into the great future and shapes many MOTOR OR MAN Here is Englands latest attempt to combine an auxiliarymotor with a front driver, bantam wheel. destinies besides its own. Already it hasmolded public opinion and changed the cur-rent of social life to a wonderful the political arena it has forced its wayand its power is seen in a score of politicalplatforms, and it has loosed the great move-ment for road development in this countrywhich in the next decade will save more coldcash to this Government than any singlemovement in operation to-day. It has been able to receive the just con-sideration of the law of the land, and itsrights are now incorporated in statutes thatoperate in many States. It has been incor-porated in the police systems of great citiesthe world over, and the military despotismsof the Old World have utilized the wheel intheir mighty armies. The bicycle has pro-jected new and rational ideas for the solu-tion of many social problems of the day. Ithas become a recognized f
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