William Dean Howells
(1 Mar 1837 - 11 May 1920)
American author and editor who worked as assistant editor (1866-71), then editor (1871-1881), of the Atlantic Monthly magazine. He articles for Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1886-1909) and over one hundred books in various genres.
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Science Quotes by William Dean Howells (1 quote)
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.
— William Dean Howells
Describing streets in London, from 'London Films', Harper’s Magazine (), 110, No. 655, 72.