I like to see it lap the Miles Technology and Modernization Quotes Page 1

This is an intriguing image of the train being refueled. Interestingly, the speaker doesn't describe the train being fed by human hands, but instead gives this amazing technology a kind of autonomy or agency.

Oh dear. Feeling high and mighty, are we? The train's inner life is filled out more here; it seems to feel a kind of superiority to the inhabitants of the shanties (humans). What might this imply about the relationship of technology to its inventors?

Here, we see that technology is able to surmount even the greatest natural boundaries – it carves paths where none existed before.