A hundred years from now, there will be no more kings and queens, and the writers of the day will envy us, just as the writers of this day envy the men who wrote of chivalry and tournament, and they will have to choose their heroes from bank presidents, and their heroines from lady lawyers and girl politicians and typewriters. What a stupid world it will be then!
--Richard Harding Davis, 1895
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