Excerpt from Contemporary History of the World Yet the changes it has seen in the world's activities and thought are greater than upon the world's face. Old ques tions have been decided or pushed aside, and new questions, of which our grandfathers did not dream, await the dawning twentieth century. Commercial and social problems have forged to the front. Development of the individual battles with the concentration of authority. As Menu's age of thought paled before Fulton's age of steam, so that in its turn is being eclipsed by the age of electricity of Edison and Bell. Grand things will they behold who are to come after us. And we ourselves cannot know too much of the days in which we live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.