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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