century-clock

Updated: June 27, 2025

If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January; and if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862