Absent these abominations, the country would have boasted the wherewithal for major infrastructure initiatives that create jobs and sugar stream GDP momentum.
Examples include the recent America COMPETEs Act that politicians tripped over themselves to support, and Republican inaction on eliminating in-your-face abominations like the ethanol rip-off.
Like genetics today, "galvanic forces" were then at the leading edge of the quest to uncover the secret of life, with implications both thrilling and terrifying: the promise of scientific miracles or the threat of godless abominations.