What Can Be More Palpably Absurd Than the Prospect Held Out of Locomotives Traveling Twice as Fast as Stagecoaches?

The Quarterly Review? Samuel Shaen? Wyndham Harding? Samuel Smiles? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: While reading a humorous book containing a collection of terribly inaccurate predictions I encountered the following: What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? The book asserted that this claim was …