... the preservation of the natural beauty of the wilderness. They began to consider manufactories, railroads, and extensive deforestation as a threat to the New Eden. Thus, their artistic vision had little room for the invasion of natural beauty by technological progress, and technology turned out to be some kind of snake in the Garden of Eden. George Inness' Lackawanna Valley (1855) illustrates ... to order of the proprietor of the Delaware-Lackawanna-and Western Railroad, and depicts a wide landscape with a steam train coming toward the foreground, the tender of which is filled with wood...

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