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No one would have believed, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, that American affairs were being shaped by the timeless forces of upheaval and unrest, that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were influenced and changed by ideas greater than themselves, perhaps as narrowly as a man might divert a river without the creatures within becoming aware. With infinite complacency genteel men went to and fro over this great nation about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over labor. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same.  No one in the upper classes gave a thou