Lord Wellington’s lament: Part 1, ‘needlessly moving about’
“[Railroads will] only encourage the common people to move about needlessly.”
The Duke of Wellington, 1835
There is much to admire in the Iron Duke, but when it came to the Iron Horse, no matter how dismissive, he was imperiously, dismissively, magisterially wrong. Railways created mobility and opportunity, and the common people took advantage of it to […]
