Travel Diary - on monotonousness

"The Electric light illluminate their houses, the tramcar patrols their streets, the silk chimney - part of civilization is constantly in evidence; and they are as other men. The world is gradually acquiring a painful similarity; in a few hundred years every one will dress alike and speak the same language and the human race will be reduced to one dull common place  of unifomity" --

- Henry Kirke in  " Twenty years in British Guiana" (1898) as read in ' A cork screw is most usefull" (pg 87) read on 10/10/13👄