In its earliest days, the telegraph inspired (i)____________ without precedent in the annals of technology. A new sense of (ii)____________ across: a sense that the world was in (iii)____________, that life for one's children and grandchildren would be very different, all because of this wondrous force and its uses. A. anxiety B. resentment C. a state of change D. outrage E. futurity F. a downward spiral G. exhilaration H. nostalgia I. an unyielding stasis