Quoted in Gerald Berk, Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994), 38.
"The Truth Needed about Railroads," Railway Age, Oct. 19, 1876, p. 372.
"American Railroad Credit," Railway Age, Jan. 10, 1878, p. 20.
Hyde to Hopkins, Nov. 3, 1871, LB, 2:92-93, box 1, f. 3, Hyde Papers.
Hyde to Hopkins, Nov. 3, 1871, LB, 2:92-93, box 1, f. 3, Hyde Papers.
Hyde to Van Nostrand & Co. Dec. 8, 1872, Letterbook 2: 314, Box 1, folder 3, Hyde Papers.
This is the great theme of Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York, Oxford University Press, 1964).