The Press., 1889-12-26
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 : It was the year 8O9a The Stanford uni vesdty was holding it's twelve hundredth am hivm.sary. For three centuries and moro the great stone wall and bridge across the bay at Ravsnswood had been completed, so that mosb of the professors from the elder univer- sity at Berkeley came by this route, looking dow on the upper bay, changed into felds wit. richards of two hundred and fifty years growing where the Nineteenth century sloops and oyster boats came to the prehistoric embarcaderos of Mowrys Land Ing and Alviso. A great industrial univer- sity. Workshops reaching for miles along the beautiful slopes of San Mateo. training schools, art schools language schools, scien- tific schoola Berkeley for the classics and the shunnanitieS Stanford university for an lanpaf alleled grodpdng of the great industrial and scientiic Activities of the race For mile beyond mile ran the gardens, the green houses, the intensive horticulture which for more than thousand years had made the valley regions of 7Californias thes richest and most thickly populated district in the world. Statistics from the census of the year 3090: Population of California, forty seven nlil1' lions; population of the valleys which impinge upon San Francisco, including the valleys caused by the drainage of Suison bay, San Pablo bay, and the upper half of San Fran cisco bay, twenty eight millions One-half of these are in the Sacramento San Joaquin valley, the other half within fifty miles of San Francisco city"
 The president; of the university. Leland Stanford Ainsworth, descendant of one of the Oregon Ainsworths of the Nineteenth a-ls. | s- | l.. endless," he said; "the race goes on, ever im- proving. Those were. foolish fears of the men of the dark ages, now almost prehistoric, established. The social order has changed. What they called revolution, and vainly fought, has proved evolution, We have come together, on this twelve hundredth an ;;nuder these ancient stone arches, less to celebrate the past than to plan for the new conquests of nature. Whispers have gone forth to the world that in our chemical laboratory strange discoveries have been made These discoveries we give to you to- day, whether for human happiness or human misery will depend upon yourselves"
 The audience listened with some bewilder- nient. In that great hall, with its arches of weather beaten stone, more than 10000 peo- pie were assembled, but delicate electrical machinery made thes speakers voice audible and the speakers face clearly visible to every one in the buildings and even to the thou sands who sat beneath thestately oaks outside.
 What was this new discoveryi Would it make life better worth livinga Would it give . man longer life? At least 1t was evident that the discovery was one of thrilling im- p6rtance in the mind of the president. He spoke with the utmost earnestness "For more than 100 years this university has held as . sacred trust group of scientific discov. cries made by one of its students He wrote his formulas down and sealed them for this twelve hundredth anniversary. Three days before it's celebration the faculty of this uni- verdty was to assemble, break the seals, test the formulas and decide whether to reveal the secrets or to destroy them forever We met; We;hate decided; we creates new pro feesorship, more important, perhaps, than any other in existence on the face of the earth. We have chosen Hneal descendant of the discoverer of this groupof secrets, Pro- lessor Lemuel Jones Carey. and, going back toscne of the almost forgotten writers of the Nineteenth century, ws nalne his chair the chair of .The Ethics of Dust 'n
 A ripple of half annoyed amusement ran over the audience. Was that alla Only am 0ekkOA VI SkaSSo ions of biology, or psychology, or bothii But the president went on: "Professor Carey was on the right track when this event. occurred. .,zz Itis rehizfkabla. that all his ii- ,yestigations have fitted him to utilize and de- velop this group of new facts. Without him the Ethics of Dust would have had to wait fifty years for an interpreter. With him you can catch a glimpse of it's scope today It is nothing that you imagine. It is not long life; ft Is not money, or happiness, except in- cidentslly. But, perhaps it means all the things which any of you, or all of you, have ever dreamed about;n And the president sat down. The wall at the back of the stage opened and revealed laboratory, strange even to the eyes of chemists there. Professor Carey came toward, and set curious micro scope on the stand. Then he looked over the audience and spoke of the great subject.
 'What we have done is to conquer the ul tiuaata atom, and discover whether it ia :healthy or not. If'it Is diseased, it win pro ,Sdnce disease-inensal,- moral or'<physicaf, as the cass .may be- Every one of .us has dis:
 eased atoms in his system.. That is- what
 makes us die too soon; sometimes that is
 what makes us do wrong. When we find the
 dissased atom5 VI cannot destroy it. Nosh-
 ing can. But we can now isolate it SO that ii
 can do no hafta---atS leasS,s not for ages to
 come; perhapSs never again We can force
 each Atom-each dust mote which foata
 about the world-to tell its story; can dis
 cover where 1t hes been, and what it has
 doue, and whether it Is helpfHl or hurtful
 Since the number of atoms in tho Rtmosphefs
 of the earth is now dsfihitely ass rtained, ii
 only remains for the human race to isolate
 from further evil the diseased atoms as fast
 as poasibae.s Then, a few centuries from now
 only healthy atoms will remain. This, as
 need not explain to you, must mean perfsc1
 health, and . great many other things whict
 the newspapers will tell you .about. !" z rg Al great hush feH on the audience, as they
 understood this stnpeadoas clains Then mur
 murs and cries began to break forth, as peo
 pie suddenly spoke to each other; forgettine
 all elss fin ths presencs Of the fact. The ulH
 mats atom had been conquered That wa
 whas science and theology for thousands o
 years had said could never be done Did i
 mean twiping out thessecret sins, taking away
 the daily temptation from each sons1 A.wo man, rich;s beantiful, ashiOnnble rose in thi
 audience and fe6cEed uut hsf sh&nds to Pro |sfessdr Carey. 'sTaks away my selfishnessr she icried. A man in the primepsof life famous over the continent, rose and callet with deep'voice fppession. sTakS away tlfa
 which once made me false to my oathy Tn
 professor reached his hands out, and saiL in ! knsI which stillsd the tempest:
 Es rIcannot. No one can. You livsand di