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Article Description: By Mark Twain - Mark writes a fascinating letter to Walt Whitman about the achievements of the 19th century, both technological and societal.

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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">letter: mark twain walt whitman re: 19th century achievements</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] These seventy years have done much more to widen the interval between man &amp; the other animals than was accomplished by any five centuries which preceded them.&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;The steam press,</li> <li>] the steamship,</li> <li>] the steel ship,</li> <li>] the railroad,</li> <li>] the perfected cotton-gin,</li> <li>] the telegraph, the telephone,</li> <li>] the phonograph,</li> <li>] the photograph,</li> <li>] photo-gravure,</li> <li>] the electrotype,</li> <li>] the gaslight,</li> <li>] the electric light,</li> <li>] the sewing machine,</li> <li>] &amp; the amazing, infinitely varied &amp; innumerable products of coal tar,</li> <li><strong>*** AND</strong></li> <li>] application&nbsp;of anesthesia to surgery-practice</li> <li>] you have seen the slave set free,</li> <li>] you have seen the monarchy banished from France, &amp; reduced in England to a machine which makes an imposing show of diligence &amp; attention to business, but isn&rsquo;t connected with the works</li> <li><strong>***</strong></li> <li>] You shall see marvels upon marvels added to these whose nativity you have witnessed; &amp; conspicuous above them you shall see their formidable Result&mdash;Man at almost his full stature at last!</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/mark-twain-letter_n_5268842.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/mark-twain-letter_n_5268842.html</a></li> </ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 1889-05-24</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] src = huffington post 2014-05-06</li> <li>] CC timeline</li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>