I am not sure.
But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life
than most of us suspect. They are here, and almost all outward things
are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going
to alter war, and they are going to alter peace. I think men's minds
are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles; just
how, though, I could hardly guess. But you can't have the immense
outward changes that they will cause without some inward ones, and it
may be that George is right, and that the spiritual alteration will be
bad for us. Perhaps, ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the
inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the
gasoline engine, but would have to agree with him that automobiles
'had no business to be invented.'" He laughed good-naturedly, and
looking at his watch, apologized for having an engagement which made
his departure necessary when he would so much prefer to linger. Then
he shook hands with the Major, and bade Isabel, George, and Fanny a
cheerful good-night--a collective farewell cordially addressed to all
three of them together--and left them at the table.
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