"Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated â€¦ save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem â€¦ but a miracle â€¦ that the thoughts of living men â€¦ should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?"

-- Edward Everett

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