700 Common Words Exercise No. 29
Today we have so many different means of getting
comfortably and quickly from one place to another that we perhaps do not value
some of these means as much as we ought. In the early days of man’s
development, he had to walk or to run if he desired to get from one to another.
Then, after many years, he discovered that he could sit on the back of an
animal if he moved on land, and in this way he sat at east while the animal
laboured for him. The animal used naturally differed in different countries. A
very important development came when men discovered that they could move across
water. The object that carried them over the water in those far-off days could
not be called a ship as we understand that word today. Poor as the methods may
have been, however, they did let men reach place that would be otherwise cut
off by water. For thousands of years there was no development beyond this.
There existed no quick means of movement. Life was simple and hard. But thins
do not stand still. We must, we are told, move onwards or move back, and men
seem always to have desired to move forward. No matter what point they reach,
they always see something more calling them onwards. Out of this desire for a
better material life came good roads, big ships, railways, motorcars and
planes. So used are we to wonderful planes and to powerful motor-cars that we
are in danger of under valuing the railway, that rather out-of-date method of
moving across the country! Few people in these days use the railway for
pleasure: they use it because it is a useful means a getting somewhere
reasonably quickly. If a friend tells us that he is going somewhere by plane we
are immediately interested. If he tells that he has bought a handsome new car
and is going to such a place we are likely to be interested. If he going
overseas in one of the large and modern ships all his friends will want to see
him off. Let him go by rail, however, and no one will take the smallest
interest in him. Railways are all right in their way, but they are not news!
Yet the railway has played an important part in the greatness of our country.
Railways have quite a long history if we go back to the times when the trains
were led by horses, but they have a history of only a hundred or so years when
we speak of the railway in its modern form. The present heavy railway, with
great engines and iron or steel railway lines, was developed in this country,
and from here it was soon sent to most parts of the world. The English built
railways were found not only in this country but in other countries overseas,
and in a remarkably short time engines were carrying trains full of people and
goods at rates as high as those used today. These rates do not seem very
remarkable today, used as we are to hearing of planes moving at 500 or a
thousand miles an hour, but they seemed very remarkable to people a hundred
years ago. There were no motor-cars and the horse was used as the quickest,
safest and best means of getting about on roads that were for the most part
very bad indeed. Quite small distances often took days to cover. In such
conditions as these it is natural that the railway seemed a thing of most
outstanding importance. It is certain that without it this country could not have
gone forward in the wonderful way it has. It is doubtful whether even the plane
in this age has really been so important for the country as the train was in
the earlier age. In the building of railways this country led the world, but in
recent years certain other countries have shown more drive in keeping their
railways clean and up-to-date.
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