The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-07
TIL AGE OF ALUMINIUM
The Wcrld Shall Shine with
New Luster.
rwESvlETR CENTURY PROPHECY.


Professor isidpath Foresses 'xreat Things.
Secretary Noble On the Developments Of
the West-srcretary Foster and II. Wal
ter Webb ON Railway s~pecd-shail We
Have y New White House:
copyright. ;s93, by American Press Associa-
toni
Among the greatest changes which the
fifth C~o,':rnhian year will discover will be
:he sub. tuition OF aluminium for i.cn and
OF sound Ia. sight IN the work OF learning.
These ,aIug> civilization demands and Will
find in the Twentieth century Both OF
these s;l bstitutions i,lplya striking change
III the relations of man to the laws OF his
environment
The rOgres of the human race has been
marked and recorded at every stage by the
u.p OF materials found in the earth. The
present civilization of the world is founded
on iron. For nearly 5000 years iron has
been ahe most important material sub
stance III the arts of life. We live in an age
of iron. The whole present fabric is builded
almost exclusively on this coarse, strong
metal. The age OF iron marks the first
emerge nee of mankind into the conscious
state. Before the epoch OF national CON
>cio,lsI.e,s there had been two ages of stone.
Rarhar.Sm has alway, had stone for its sub
stance and symbol In the intermediate
stages of man life the race advanced to cop
per and then to bronze. There was Il brief
coppeI age and then a longer age OF bronze,
Finally came the age OF iron. 1t has been
the age of battle and power and conquest.
Civilization has caught her hue and quality
! from that material substance to which she
! has owed her preservation.
We are not to suppose that the age
OF iron will last forever. Nothing lasts
forever All things obey the law of evo.
Iitioii and transformation Just as stone
and bronze have given place to iron, 50
shall iron give place to aluminium. The
people will not call it aluminium or alum
mum. hut aium-for short. There will he
All age ut alum surprising all the pre-
v,ol- ages OF mans development. The age
Of power and conquest shall yield to an age
OF glory and enlightenment. and Of that
aye aluminium will he the shining symbol.
That beautiful, universal and everlasting
metal. constituting as it does so large II part
Ut the -;irth's surface and body. will bear
mp the whole stupendous fabric of knowl-
edge and progress which shall rise rOun
our descendants in the closing decade of the
Twentieth century
The world shall shine with the new lus.
ter OF Its principal metal. All things shall
became whittier than silver All the extern
OF aspects OF life shall be FURNISHED to
brightness. The houses and cities of men,
buiit OF aluminium. shall flash in the rising
sun with SURPRISING b%riiliancy All spires
aud walls, all gatewHys and porches, all
bridgrs aud temples, all moving enginery
and farof bait dement's shall blaze with a
SpIen,ior tetitting the new dawn Of the
ages to cOiDe
The secoiif yrsai, change from the fourth
TO the titth Columbian year will be the sub
-tIiutIon OF sound for sight. 1T will be the
restoration ut the human ear to its righifui
office a. the organ of enlightenment AND
earning The sound wave il to be sul,sti
,ute,i ton the light wave a> the vehicle o.
ali our best information aud Intercourse
l'iie ear l. to take the place OF the eye TO,
the interest aud instruction OF mankind
\. most unnatural thing has happened in
human development. The life Of all ages
iis> been instructed by sound
All mothers, from the mother bird to the
mother woman, teach their offspring by
sound ny utterance. Eat Instead of con
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20 the complete development 81 tue miha
an abnormal method has .'-"u substituted
he youth at a cerliih age = 20 INTO
wori! OF >eience aud there dismissed "
acquire II he cali the painful Use OF mean
.ngIe~S hIe'ng.ypnlcs There he must study
with the eye, learning the seuse OF CROOKED
n,a - which tan at most signify no mort
:tan words. Alas. how much OF energ.
and ife and thought have been wasted II
the INSTRUCTION OF the mind by character
ana syt'ifn!s HOW the eyes OF niankint
nave been diiniiied ana r~c!ilSei and th'
faculties orefheated by this unnatural proc
->- OF learning.
Man teglnS his requirement OF knowl
edge with words, and he ends with words
hnt M unnatural civilization has taugLi
ann TO walk the greater part OF his intel
.ectnai Journey by means OF arbitrary sys
TENS OF writing ana printing The fifti
Columbian year VIII see him untaught-;
nard thing wlthal-and retaught on Ma
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