The times., 1899-02-09
THE MAN AT THE MACHINE.
He Dominates the WOrud and Makes
No Noise About 1t.

What makes the modern world what 1t
is? 1t is new kind of men. The states
men and heroes and philosophers and hu-
manitarians have not reared the structure
of the American civilization of 1899. The
men who have made 1t are the new breed
of men and they agitate no cause, twang
no Tyres. They are the men whose minds
are freed from prejudice and they make
the machines and create the uses thereof.
Prejudice has been the milestone hanging
TO the neck of progress. Men who have
prejudices are unable to use their brains
in their full measure. Hence man hitherto
has been part dross. This proposition may
be easily proved says the Kansas City
Star which paper proceeds to prove it,
as follows:
The world has philosophers and states
men and heroes and poets and merchants
and agitators and prophets today, and 1t
has always had them. There has always
been thought, courage, virtue, and justice
among men. Virtue and light have fought
evil and darkness always. Have the ele-
ments of good attained such exalted vic
tory as TO make the America and England
of 1893? Hardly. The beginning of the
great stride of the last half o! the nine
driven engine. Ii gave mankind an i'm
petus which grew with compound interest
Science was stimulated and problems were
| unraveled until today man is ready to ac-
| cept every new discovery and every new
machine. One hundred years were needed
| to accept the steam engine-uow only ten
| years to develop electricity. Take away
the steamship, the locomotive the electric
wire and leave all the statesmen and he
and Gin d, .I,..T Il
what would be the residue? II would be
the eighteenth century.
| With the machine came the new breed
| of men. To create machinery and 10 find
| its uses; 10 labor in the workshop of me-
chanics and in the laboratory of science
| to learn ratios of resistance and to discover
| the germs of disease, mechanics and
| science are kindred in that they require
| demonstration and experiment. Man used
| TO philosophze and think. Now he expert
ments and knows That does not, however
| make the new breed of men, but the devo-
| ton 10 the imparsonal and unpolitical CON
| structiOn of wheels and pistOns did. There
| is not nationality or religion form OF
government or school of morals or idea OF
| beauty or any hatred Of other men in the
| making of a machine. nor in the prosecu-
tiOn OF science.
Even God is depicted as God TO .ove
and a God of consuming wrath. who re-
wards and Furnishes. The new breed OF
man, in the occupation OF making the ma
chine. frees his mind from all things ex-
cept the creation of the machine. His
mind is without prejudice. For the first
time in the history of the world In making
machines man achieved freedom of minds
freedom from himself This breed OF man
Ignores the shouts of agitation and the
clash of parties and creeds. His numbers
have extended into all things where meI
create and establish uses for that which
they create The politicians and agita
tors and writers and ministers and law
yers fancy that they dominate the world
They don't Ii is the man behind the ma
chine-the man without prejudice.