Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit.... The world had scarcely become known as round and complete in itself when it was asked to waive the tremendous privilege of being the center of the universe. Never, perhaps, was a greater demand made on mankind—for by this admission so many things vanished in mist and smoke! What became of our Eden, our world of innocence, piety and poetry; the testimony of the senses; the conviction of a poetic-religious faith? No wonder his contemporaries did not wish to let all this go and offered every possible resistance to a doctrine which in its converts authorized and demanded a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed not even dreamed of.
One indicator that the level of economic exchange was quite small: as late as 1820, the total carrying capacity of all the world’s ships was around 5.9 million metric tons. The corresponding figure in 2018 was 322 times higher—and those ships, traveling much faster, were likely to complete many more voyages in a single year.
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