The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-06-23

They contend that the life Of every
sentient being is sacred thing, and
that man has no right TO save his
own life at the expense of another's.
As matter Of fact. the majority OF
Hindoos regard the life of the lower
animals as more sacred than the life
of man.
PROFESSOR FITZGERALD of Dublin
University, in n recent essay on
Physical Science, takes this sanguine
view of the "ituation The greatest
problems at present before physical
investigators, are the structure Of
ether and matter. We can hardly
doubt that they are dynamically con-
structed. They are every dav more
conclusively shown to be dynamical
systems, subject to the laws of mo-
mentum, of energy, of action and re-
action. Are they so in their minut-
list parts? There seems little doubt
but that they are. Ii so, what is
their structure? We want TO get a
road opened up into these dark con-
structure OF matter, and its internal
motion; and we look to the physical
investigator. We look to the chem
ist. We hope one day TO know SO
much of these internal motions and
of these structures that we may be
able to discover the structure in the
brain that betokens memory and the
rlx-in
goodness, love. We may then hope
to form some dim scientific Judgment
of the thoughts underlying creation.
We may be able TO tell what
thoughts underlie the motions
of solar system or of the develop
ment of a race"
RECENT statistics show that the
English language is spoken Mt pres
ent by lis, 900, 600 people distributed
as follows British Islands. 3S, 000,- =
600; United States, 65, 600, 600; Cam
ada exclusive OF French Canadians),
1000, 900; West Indies, British Gui-
ana, ETC., |, 100000; Australia,
1000, 600; South Africa, India and
other colonies, 300, 900. This only
includes those whose mother tongue
is English. II the number of persons
able to speak English but not re-
garding it as their mother tongue
is included, the figures would be con-
siderably increased. To this, how
ever, one exception must be made !;
the large number Of Germans, Scan
dinavians and other alien races that
have emigrated to the United States
and the British colonies and become
absorbed therein, are included in the
above table, for English is their
adopted language; they have become
permanent part of the Angio-Saxon
race and their children after them
will be entirely English speaking.
No other language of modern times
has made such rapid progress as Eng
lish, and the increase of English
speakers may be calculated at 1000,
600 annually. Three hundred years
ago, in the time of Queen Elizabeth,
the language was spoken only by
about 5,000,0 600 OF. people, nearly all
of whom resided in the British Isles.
1t was about this time that England
began her work of colonization, to
which the great spread of the Eng
lish tongue is mainly to be attributed.
The principal languages which enter
into competition with English, and
which are spoken by the greatest
number of people-leavlng out of ac-
count such languages as Chinese or
Hindustanee-are French, Spanish
Russian and German. OF these
French is practically stationary as
regards the number Of its adherents; /;
and in point Of influence it is dis
tinctly on the decline. 1t is no
longer the universal language Of dip
lomacy and commerce; in both re.
spects it has had to give way to Eng
lish.