The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-05
The POsaihslisies ef Future Discovery.
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lLondoa Speesasor.l
 We wonder. nos that the whole earth is being searched as with . microscope, and that we are really approaching its se1et places center of Afdca, the great unexploged islands like New Guinea aud inner BoEneo, the north pole and the long valleys of northern TAioet; that tho0sands are hunting in the scientific 6eld and that anIiQuarians are irq qaiTing about re lily interesting annQUities, the origins of the races and of the states ~hesher we shall ever 6nd anything really marvellous, anything which will defect sl C ~hcle current of human thought. oI even make us question the accuracy of what VIC know. We doubt it greatly One can dream such thi igs-say, of mountain transcending all human expe- rience in New Guinea or depression ot miles in the ear h's surface between, say. the Desert of Gobi and Lhassa, a depres. sion by which we might penetrate a htde below the outer skin of the world, and know geological facts at which we nov only guess. Man discovered thing as startitng wheA he convinced himself that the sky was not solid. Or, say-for that Is perhaps better and would sta,tie cultivated m ankind more effeciu Ally-tha, ~e found in Australia buned city, skel- etons aud all, preserved like Hetcula- nsom, aG3 .s! ot evidence. cf high CIV ilxalion anterior to all that ~e know ot men, and separated by time as we'll as the ocean from all history. Or fancy tha, we reached the north pole, and found new race there, human beings, yet with some occult Arity, say, sky blue hair. which uomistakAbl cut them of from the known races of man. Or imagine and for this we need fix on no locality that we found early man, indubuAble eall, man, not to be denied by theolo- gians any more than by savAnts, patent to pr Benson as to Sir John Lubbock, and found him superior. and not inferior, to man as he now is; found proof, that is, oi the duke of Argyll's hypothesis that we are but rising again after having de. scended from level higher than we nave yet reached Or to stand on another plane, dream for a moment of a ghastly rumor spreading over Europe, soon to be yer hed, that the m asteT-chemist of the day had discovered and had reve Aled the means of 6eing water, and that earth was therefore at the mercy of the first misan- thrope of high chemical auainments or ,hs, great surgeon given to wild exper- imen,s with electricity, had m ide what doctors, they whisper, dream of as only just beyond hope-alight so concentrated and so searching that the physician could look through hls ltient and see past all question or error what was wrong. Dream of that or oi a method of thoug ught-reading actually found out and verified, So that whenever il was appl cd lying woul be forever rendered impossible or useless. Or. once again, not to waste time ID su h speculation, thnk of method "A prac. teal method-suddenly occurring to mechanicians whereby the rush of the earth on its course through space could be utilized as force, anu human labor be rendered almost needless by an ex. haustless and tireless method ot develop. ing electric energy, which it would then be necessary only to distribute. IL is all 4 dream. Geography has nothing to give us bey ond feS mines a plant or two possibly even one that will gIo~ like rye, ,et bear like wheat and, it may be, tes drugs-perphaps, 10 the despair of pubn- cans, a sedative that has no reaction.