Swan Song (John Galsworthy)
Soames goes to Dorking to see the old family homestead, the origination of the modern Forsytes, and reflects upon the future:
"He had read somewhere that people would live underground, and come up to take the air in their flying machines on Sundays."
And it continues...
"People that wrote those prophetic articles were always forgetting that people had passions. He would make a bet that the passions of the English in 3400 A.D. would still be: playing golf, cursing the weather, sitting in draughts, and revising the prayer-book."
