Keywords: In a Thousand Years, Hans Christian Andersen, science fiction
"Yes, in a thousand years people will fly on the wings of steam through the air, over the ocean! The young inhabitants of America will become visitors of old Europe. They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which will then be in ruins, just as we in our time make pilgrimages to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia. In a thousand years they will come! The Thames, the Danube, and the Rhine still roll their course, Mont Blanc stands firm with its snowcapped summit, and the Northern Lights gleam over the lands of the North; but generation after generation has become dust, whole rows of the mighty of the moment are forgotten, like those who already slumber under the hill on which the rich trader whose ground it is has built a bench, on which he can sit and look out across his waving cornfields."
Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875), was a Danish writer who wrote novels, plays, travel books and fairy tales. He is most famous for his 168 innovative fairy tales which, unlike the traditional didactic stories, were full of ambiguity and sophisticated feelings.
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