The Price of Living in a Mechanical Age
The writer first visited a big town in boyhood, spent previously in the limited society of his native village with few visitors to provide excitement. His never-forgotten impressions were first the speed and noise of town, and his fears that the vehicles① meet and strike and the high buildings fall down; then the painful understanding that town people neither knew nor cared to know each other.
The pleasant things provided by science, seldom able to be got in villagers, give joys to those living in big towns, where life could be richer socially and culturally. But the writer, fearing that town people were too filled with the thoughts of machines to think of their fellows, wondered if the so-called benefits② of modern civilization were not expensive. (126words)
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