It is the nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 3. A prisoner of Dracula, Jonathan finds his way to a part of the castle that was occupied in bygone days. He is starting to realize that history and the past have a power that modernity cannot kill.