The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-23
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SCIENCE INvADss EVERYTHING AND
REVEALS AL SECRETS.

Infant Science. We Marvel st the Re-
suits which WIN Follow When IL
Reaches the Age OF Manhood.
Already science has made neighbors
Of erstwhile far sundered places. AL
ready the feat Of girding the earth i'm
40 minutes, once ascribed 70 magical
power. has been left hopelessly behind
by new and scientific Puck. Already
privacy has become well nigh impossi-
BILE. even that Of ones bodily interior
being no longer guaranteed. Already
science has SO far conquered the enemies
OF life that the living are jostling each
other for elbow room, and already the
nations sleep-if they ever sleep--with
their fingers ON the trigger ot the latest
magazine rifle IL this - the case IN
the green tree. what may 4 9 expect in
the dryi II infant science. only 20 years
old. has brought this about, what will
science In state Of manhood do for usf
Another question intrudes itself here:
Is the transformation, so far as il has
gone. q gain? Are we the better or the
happier for the achievements Of applied
ator was born. live more human-shall
We say a more divine-life than is pos
sible now? NJ. Berthelot has no reply
10 such queries. He is the embodiment
Of the spirit which wrests from nature
ever new powers and turns them loose
upon mankind to fulfill their destiny.
It il not for the man Of science 20 dis.
criminate, for how does he know what
goes to make q new earth? He also
must fulfill his destiny.
Sometimes we read that the age OF
romance has passed, but ask the interna-
honal congress Of applied chemistry
and You will probably hear that it is |
only just beginning; that the most fam !
tastic dreams Of our most imaginative
men are 10 what will be as humble prose |
is to highest poetry. Who can doubt it? |
Who can forbear sometimes from at /
tempting a conception OF the new
earthF" And how little way can he
whose imagination is most compact ad-
vance without stagger and fall? IL
is no wonder that science lifts her head
and surveys the future with pride.
M. Berthelot promises a new man as
well as new earth. Given the second,
the first is necessity. for the old Adam
In q reconstructed Eden would soon fall
from grace again. unaided by the SER
pent. in whom. by the way, ne no lon
ger believes Once more Imagination
'uns riot This new man-what is he to
Der The new woman we know well
'nough to make description superfiuous.
The real question is whether we are 10 |
lrgue from this feminine TO the as vet |
masculine. Let rs hone |
lot. for otherwise the lookout is ex-
remedy bad. 1t may be, however, that
he new man of applied science will ex-
mplify the mysterious law regulating
orces which neither increase nor d.
but swing backward and for
ward ike the pendulum of the tides.
Is the woman becomes more and | I
more mannish-of course without being {
nanly-Twill the new man become more r
nd more womanish? We should like
d. Berthelot TO consider that point in | !
he light OF science, which is now. an
'arently. our only guide. Much de-
ends ON the solution Of the problem,
nd 1t is very serious consideration
hat nothing in the past can help us TO |
M. Berthelot Is reported as saving n
hat the entire social organization is ii
cling transformed amid conditions for
40 comprehension of which the past
TIERS no suggestive precedents or data"
AS MIR. Gilbert observes in state of
Here's a pretty how
'ye DOR We are at sea az TO the new
ian, without rudder or compass, and it
mere toss up whether he may not
I'm out to be simply an old woman.
ur personal concern, truly, is very
nall The man OF the present will last il
ar time. and. with all his faults, he is r,
BOD enough for us, especially as we 4
now nothing better But we are taught \
identify ourselves with the race, and, !,
hing SO. the question as to man 500 -
'ars hence Is one not only of uncer.
inty, but OF painful interest. We shall
IT be able to repudiate him, but, Old
o other hand. he may disclaim us, b,
SC as many people nowadays scorn- 81
lily reject the theory Of mans descent 81
ON the ape. The subject is thus seen 4,
be one OF . very disquieting nature, =
ID the sooner the international con- ~
ess Of applied chemistry or other vi
armed body throws further light upon
the better. Surely science can give
me inkling Of what its own Adam is
'ely to be. We do not ask for particu-
% of his Eden, because we know that
'ailway will run through it, aud that
hces. but curiosity as to the recreated nc
rdener are inevitable. "a good man at
d an angel. exclaimed the late est. eii
'ble DR.. Young, 'these between. on
w thin the barrierp' We will hope W.
the angel. though science may not M
ognize such a creature. London 49,
legraph. ~