It is in biology that nature may be discovered; in economics that the market may be comprehended; in psychology that the individual’s mind and behavior may be observed; but only in history may an inquisitive scholar understand all industries and their champions. History often appears as the recording of biased facts and blurred events referenced to as a contrast to the present. Regrettably, in no other way, may a man spend his life turning the beautiful drama of the struggle of civilization into a dry and tasteless collection of terms. And yet, others have taken it as their duty to describe history under the lens of a sequence of innovations that moves mankind to a distant technological utopia. But dare we return to this Gilded Age? How many
