The Progress., 1893-01-14

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day getting me amer and meaner and be
coming mightbr and mightier for evil
and crime
Then tn" wrongs of the ages are piling
up We arc suffering for what our an
ccstors dill, anh it grows moro and more
/ aggravated year by year. 1t amazes lnc
as / go around and see those who arc
thus shut up and whose lives arc thus
destroyed because they have come TO
an inheritance of toll and oppression
through the wrongs of the centuries-an
inheritance which has been handed down
to them snd which they capnot escape
Cd On the other hand, &c good ar9
becoming better With all the desper-
. ate wickedncss of the great city tEcro
never was u time when there were trucr
Christmas in it than today, when men
were a. ready TO lay down their lives
and die for their fellow men as now
Whether it De into tho cholera hospital
there to suffer for the sake of humanity
or to n lcprous colony in the wilds Of
some southern sea, Christianity has its
divincst disciples ia this world today.
6wITrNESS OF PHYSICAL PROGRESS.
Second-Thcn there is another reason
why VIC feel that this crisis is approach.
ing-because the swiftncss of physical
progress is such that the wheels will
either take fire or we VIII get there soon.
We must either reach tho goal or tEcro
must BE- "A wreck on the track SOME
where. The velocity with which civil
zation j. being at present rushed IS some
thing ;nCalCulable, unless a man has
given serious study 70 The subject
Speed IS the cry Of the hour. People aro
not satisfied with n 2:0l speed in a horse.
They want it TO fly with muscles of steel
Thank God, there are some men in this
world like Robert Bonner, who know
that a horses speed is not to be used for
spinning around track for thugs, cut
throats and harlots And ] hope some
one viii take hold of Nancy Hanks and
put her to better use than gambling
show
The CRY Of the world today is for moro
speed. We are not satisfied with horses
i'll the army. In the next war we have
we are going to have bicycle cavalry.
We are not satisfied if train makes
forty or fifty miles an hour. but want
fifty-iive and sixty miles an hour, and are
crying for hundred, and each railroad
that cannot come up TO the standard
must he left out of the great race. When
go anywhere now / want to go on the
fastest train. would much rather ride
sixty miles an hour than forty The fact
is, it is safer to go fast than slow. Those
that go slow get run over. The mar
that goes fast runs over somebody else.
The steamer must have more speed |
The Cunard company is building
steamship that is as magnificent in pro
portions physical az the old Great East |
ern, with new powers and engines, mul- |
tiplying its great muscles of steel de /
manding more speed.
We are going to abolish the postofice |
delivery Of clerks. Arrangements have /
been made in Washington for pneu- /
matte tubes through which 10 shoot the .
mail. The world is positively full of .
tho great Thought Of rushing on ply,
ically. And if it keeps on at the pres
ent rate, what are the possibilities?
THE ELECTRIC AGE.
II IS an electric age, and therefore one
of boundless powers. l passed Menlo
Park yesterday and thought of the
wizard that sits back there, and Of the
world that sits waiting for the next an.
nouncement from his brain. that shall
fill our hearts with gladness because it
makes the world brighter and more
beautiful.
The march Of science is a history Of
miracles. The scientist now can lift the
skull of an idiot and make him into a
wise man. Drunkards are transformed
into sober lnen and women. / do no:
care what they say about that Keeley
know some men down in North
Carolina who are sober and clothed IN
their right minds now. The cure that
ztfects miracles is the cure for me.
In the science of medicine and hygiene
progress has been made. We
had cholera scare in the city some time
ago and an unmeaning panic, and yet il
wac nothing compared with what the
Old cholera scare used to be before they
found out what the cholera was. They
used TO go out and sound the drums and
play the fife-used to march in prsces-
lions to keep off the mysterious visitor
from dropping down from the skies on
he city. Now science has drawn tho
mask from this dreaded visitor. and we
nave been taught the secrets of its meth
ID Of work.
DISCOvERY OF THE SOUL
Material science has rediscovered God:
hat God even is in matter, in the body,
md that there is a spiritual entity even
n that which we thought could be dis
olved into it's elements. The question ;
low Is not whether a man has got one
oul. but how many has he got? In
france there have been experiments III
that give us most marvellous
esults and furnish basis for material s
site philosophy. A recent experiment i
howed there were two personalities in a
nan. A subject was taken and put to s
leep. Before putting him to sleep the I
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