mechanical age. Contemporary awareness had to become 
integral and inclusive again, after centuries of dissociated 
sensibilities. The Bauhaus school became one of the great 
centres of effort tending toward an inclusive human awareness; 
but the same task was accepted by a race of giants that 
sprang up in music and poetry, architecture, and painting. They 
gave the arts of this century an ascendancy over those of 
other ages comparable to that which we have long recognized 
as true of modern science.

     During its early growth, the telegraph was subordinate to 
railway and newspaper, those immediate extensions of 
industrial production and marketing. In fact, once the railways 
began to stretch across the continent, they relied very much on 
the telegraph for their coordination, so that the image of the 
stationmaster and the telegraph operator were easily