The End of Progress

My Fellow Victorians!
Heed my words! Repent before it is too late!
We may well congratulate ourselves on being products of this Scientific Age. This Golden Age during which Disease is being eradicated and Poverty will become a thing of the past. But, with our fine factories and Model Towns, we are playing with Fire in the form of Father Earth. The Tide of Progress is nearly at its high-water mark and I foresee a time when our mighty Canals and Railways will be reclaimed by the vengeful Father Nature. Now that we have invented everything which God has identified for us, it is only a matter of time before we regress into an Agrarian age and beat our steam-engines back into the plough-shares from whence they came.