Trusted to Machinery
It was the dissolution of an age; it was the collapse of the civilisation that had trusted to machinery, and the instruments of its destruction were machines. But while the collapse of the previous great civilisation, that of Rome, had been a matter of centuries, had been a thing of phase and phase, like the ageing and dying of a man, this, like his killing by railway or motor car, was one swift, conclusive smashing and an end.
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Context: The narrator surveys the war as it spreads across the globe.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter VIII. A World at War