Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Travelers in England notice the tiny trains and wonder how a nation runs on such small machinery.
- In plain terms
- The trains are tiny, and the nation is big.
- What can you take from it?
- Small systems can run big nations.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What small things surprise you?
- How does your country work?
Another view
Modern nations often rely on large, invisible systems.
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