ABSTRACT
From the Stone Age to the present day, the rapidity of human progress has been gradually increasing. If a cave man could have returned to Egypt somewhere about the year 4000 BG he would have felt that the hurry of modern life had become almost unbearable. Men were altering their habits, taking to agriculture instead of hunting, and doing strange things with metals instead of being content with flints like their ancestors. This sort of thing, he would have said, must stop; the younger generation is becoming altogether too uppish.
