…got industrialization going you would get universal peace and so on this myth is expressed very clearly in the writings of Victor Hugo who really believed that when railway trains were running all over the world, then there would be universal peace and…

…world. And a few years later in the the same year as the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 you find Victor Hugo in France even more lyrically talking about progress and what it means to man he has the most fantastic passage where he speaks…

…Alfred de Vigny, for example, an extremely skeptical reaction to the first railroads. He was by no means convinced, as Victor Hugo was convinced, or as Michelet, the French historian, was convinced, that railroads were going to transport the human race into…