"I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television β of that I am quite sure."
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E. B. White, "Removal" (July 1938) from One Man's Meat (1942)
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