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It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, — Speed

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"It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse."
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In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time, it is thus a non-negative scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as t