"It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell."

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Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'

— Tom Standage