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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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Moral
links
there
have
been--links
of
race,
links
of
commerce,
links
of
friendship,
links
of
literature,
links
of
glory;
but
this,
our
new
link,
instead
of
superseding
and
supplanting
the
old
ones,
is
to
give
a
life
and
an
intensity
which
they
never
had
before.
Highly
as
I
value
the
reputations
of
those
who
have
conceived,
and
those
who
have
contributed
to
carry
out
this
bright
design--and
I
wish
that
so
many
of
them
had
not
been
unavoidably
prevented
from
being
amongst
us
at
this
moment[A]--highly
as
I
estimate
their
reputation,
yet
I
do
not
compliment
them
with
the
idea
that
they
are
to
efface
or
dim
the
glory
of
that
Columbus,
who,
when
the
large
vessels
in
the
harbor
of
Cork
yesterday
weighed
their
anchors,
did
so
on
that
very
day
three
hundred
and
sixty-five
years
ago--it
would
have
been
called
in
Hebrew
writ
a
year
of
years--and
set
sail
upon
his
glorious
enterprise
of
discovery.
They,
I
say,
will
not
dim
or
efface
his
glory,
but
they
are
now
giving
the
last
finish
and
consummation
to
his
work.
Hitherto
the
inhabitants
of
the
two
worlds
have
associated
perhaps
in
the
chilling
atmosphere
of
distance
with
each
other--a
sort
of
bowing
distance;
but
now
we
can
be
hand
to
hand,
grasp
to
grasp,
pulse
to
pulse.
The
link,
which
is
now
to
connect
us,
like
the
insect
in
the
immortal
couplet
of
our
poet:
While
exquisitely
fine,
Feels
at
each
thread
and
lives
along
the
line.
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