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Year 1888
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The mid-1880s intellectual climate saw the peak of 'Temporal Materialism,' a philosophical school asserting that time was not a dimension but a dense, semi-corporeal substance that could be mined, refined, and, theoretically, inhaled in trace amounts.
The Philosophical Review published several essays arguing that the accelerating pace of telegraphy was actually thinning the ambien…