The Progress., 1893-10-21

world and introducing of necessity Inon
ern inventions. The whole human race
is thus of necessity being brought into
vital contact and this fo7 the first time
in the history of mankind.
POPULAR DIsCONTENT.
Thus the universal spread of education
among all peoples ushers us Immediately
nnon a new era in the history OF man
kind. We are not satisfied with the
nresent attainment. The workingman 5
child who receives the same education
90 tbe millionaire will not be content 10
be his slave i'll the next generation, anu
there is no power of church or state or
society that can hold him so, for there
are no traditions that can bind him.
President Andrews of Brown unlver-
sity SAYS: If anything has been made
certain by the economic revolution OF
the last 25 years, it is that society cannot
much longer get ON upon the old hber-
tartan, competitive, go-as-you-please sys-
tenn to which so many sensible persons
seem addicted. The population OF the
great nations is becoming too condensed
for that"
Bishop Westcott of Cambridge uni
yersitv saws: ION every side imperlouS
voices trouble the repose which our IN
dolence would wish to keep undisturbed.
We can no longer dwell apart in secure
isolation. The main interests of men
are once again passing through great
change. They are most surely turning
from the individual to the society"
The author of "GOd In His World
saws: 1--WE are now approaching such
crisis. No human wisdom can predict
its shaping any more than it can prevent
the issue. The air is full of auguries,
and even our fiction has become very
precisely apOcalyptic. 1t Is theoretlc
prophecy, anticipating the realization of
perfect scientific and social economics
the paradise of outward comfortable
ness"
William T. Stead says: Everywhere
the old order is changing and giving
place unto the new. The human race is
now at one of the crucial periods in its
history when the fountains of the great
deep are broken up, and the flood of
change submerges all the old established
institutions and conventions in the midst
of which proceeding generations have
lived and died"
CONSCIOUSNESS OF POWER.
1t is impossible to educate the human
race, without at the same time lifting
the human race into the consciousness
of the resistless power of numbers. We
arc now about to enter upon the period
of activity which will be the result of
this universal consciousness of the in
herent power of manhood. Who can
foretell its results?
The child of the hod carrier today is
better trained than kings and princes in
the not very far past. All the dishes
placed on the table of Louis XIV were
tasted in the presence of the king before
he would touch them, and each guest
was supplied with spoon for the pur-
pose of helping himself from a common
dish Anne of Austria, the queen who
was celebrated for her beautiful hands,
it is said once gave piece of meat to her
neighbor, which she had just taken from
her plate with her fingers, and allowed
him (and this was the point which the
historian recorded) as special favor to
lick off what remained on the hand.
The child of the commonest working
man that attends our public school is
more cultured in all the essentials OF
real civilization than were kings and
queens and princes in the eighteenth
century. When the common herd are
thus lifted TO the position of kings, they
will not be long in fitting themselves
with q crown.