it you fail to see so often mr returned the idiot that i would advise your eyes to make an in favor of your pupils i j � i must confess put in mr that i too am somewhat � er � somewhat up a tree as to science s connection with the future the idiot you have my meaning but hardly the i should have chosen replied the minister my style is rather said the idiot i appreciate the flattery implied by noticing it but science has everything to do with it it is science that is going to make the future great it is science that has distance and the has just begun twenty years ago it was hardly possible for a man standing on one side of the street to make himself heard on the other the properties of the atmosphere not being w hat they should be today you can stand in the pulpit of your church and by means of certain scientific apparatus make yourself heard in boston new or san has this no bearing on the future the time will come mr when your will be able to sit in their comfortable and ring up the heathen in foreign and convert them over the without run the new york public library and f ns a l o the slightest danger of falling into the soup which expression i use in its literal rather than in its sense but � interrupted mr now wait please said the idiot if science can degrees of distance who shall say that before many days science may not degrees of time if san thousands of miles distant can be brought within range of the ear why cannot be brought before the mind s eye and if can be brought before the mind s eye what is to prevent the invention of a which shall enable us to cast a w hich shall reach all around eternity and half way back if not further you do not understand me said mr when i speak of the future i do not mean the future i know exactly what you mean said the idiot i ve dealt in and i am familiar with all kinds it is you sir that do not understand me my claim is perfectly plausible and in its results is bound to make the better do you suppose that any man who by the aid of my sees that on a certain date in the future he w ill be hanged for murder is going to fail to provide himself with an in regard to that particular murder and must we not admit that having provided himself with that he will of necessity avoid and so avoid the gallows that s reasonable so in regard to all the thousand and one other that go to make this life a sinful one science by a purely logical advance along the lines already out for itself and in part already traversed will enable men to avoid the and reap only the of life we shall all sec what terrible consequences await on a single and we shall not make the can you still claim that science and the future have nothing to do with each other you are talking of matters purely said mr i have reference to our spiritual future and the two observed the idiot are so closely allied that we cannot separate them the proverb about looking after the and letting the pounds take care of themselves applies here i believe that if i take care of my future � which by does not exist � my spiritual future will take care of itself and if science places the hereafter before us � and you admit that even t r vo k library and foundations r l i now it is before us � all we have to do is to take advantage of our opportunities and mend our lives accordingly but if science shows you what is to come said the school master it must show your fate with perfect accuracy or it ceases to be science in which event your entertaining notions as to reform and so on are entirely not at all said the idiot we are approaching the time when science which is much more liberal than any other branch of knowledge will sacrifice even truth itself for the good of mankind you ought to start a company suggested the doctor either that or make himself the of an insane asylum observed the school master i never knew a man with such views as those we have heard this morning there is a great deal mr that you have never known returned the idiot stick by me and you ll die with a mind richly stored the school master left the table with such manifest impatience that mr was sorry he had started the conversation the genial gentleman who occasionally and the idiot withdrew to the latter s room where the former observed what are you driving at anyhow where did you get those crazy ideas i ate a last night and dreamed em returned the idiot i thought as much said his companion wliat fine dreams are anyhow ix breakfast was very nearly over and it was of such good quality that very few remarks bad been made finally the ball was set rolling by the lawyer how many of do you smoke a day he asked as the idiot took one from his pocket and placed it at the side of his coffee cup never more than forty six said the idiot why do you think of starting a stand not at all said mr brief i was only wondering what chance you had to live to maturity that all your maturity period will be in about eight hundred and sixty years from now the way i calculate and it seemed to me that judging from the of you smoke you 