One Umbrella Over All

Dr. Leete, … turned to say that the difference between the age of individualism and that of concert was well characterized by the fact that, in the nineteenth century, when it rained, the people of Boston put up three hundred thousand umbrellas over as many heads, and in the twentieth century they put up one umbrella over all the heads.

Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

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Context: Walking through a rainy Boston of 2000, the party stays dry under covered sidewalks.

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Source: Chapter 14

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