The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-25
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Zine ideas M q GREAT topio " the ssn,srv.
Mr par VIM Kingsley. Third 10 -ptc.idcnt
~ the New Work Iila Insurance COMPANY. In
tho November Irdcysadcui writes ~ "tIfc In
suranoc IT, Service and Its leadership %
Among o'hrf things Nj Kingsley saws
life Insurance a. Il first took form vas n
prophecy II the dav when mans outlook would
DO ~ Hil" a. tho world " wns tho expression
81 an idea that wla I"a,o1hlc. uusoln,h and
wise. vet having wtthaI u militant side
4 udot certain great leaders This hcnencent
idea not only prpphosi"d but fought II
preached The doctrine Of human fraternity and
ntthe Same tim" Vigorously attacked the reJu-
dlc,-, the ,,ccs and Ia" proNinciti,iu. that
scatter md cmlittcr men and retArd PROGRESS
with the beginning Of the twentieth century
tho period Of prophecy draws To- a close. and
the Militant period, the time Of command and
leadership heyu~
Earlier than the middle Of the Nineteenth
century there was little place in tho world even
for It's vol . 81 prophecy Man and hi, ideas.
man and his hopes. man and hi conception of
the World. Was still too provincial. too super
~stitIoIs and too small. Something like fity
years ago man really began to a,sum" mastery
over the earth. Before that he looked at the
confines of n single state us wa pow look at the
entire world he regarded tho world a. We now
regard the solar system. Within two genera
tons the world has so shrunk or rather man
has 50 expanded that the mysteries. the super
~stitions, the fears and the enmities Of earlier
DAYS have measurably vanished. The monsters
that lived beyond the pillars OF Hercules have
ali been slain. the passage 10 India has been dis
covered. At last man has intelli gently physical
dominion over the earth.
splendid "a all this Is from a material stand
point, IL represents only the beginning OF things
for life insurance. Free intercourse between
nations, International honor OF the highest
type in commercial Affairs, power ~ almost
instantaneous communication between all
parts of the world all these are necessary
preliminarie~. but all these are chiefly physical.
and tnr best part -! Tn" great conquest which
lite insurance shall som" day record Will be
lie mordla achievement, ile marv" lous physl-
cal conquest of the earth by man during the
past iiity years has completely outstrlpped
his moral and mental progress during the same
period 4 mora idea generates slowly, phy-i-
cal revolution may, COrle IN "A day For ea-
ample. steam and electricity have within our
generation almost literally repru duCed the Won
der OF the old Uircek myth. in that, like Minerva
they ma We sprung into being full armed Their
accomplishments have been 80 tremendous
and So rapid that the world hasn't had time
consider their true significance As yet these
new forces have chiefly wrought physical and
not mental or moral changes.
Where preludlce ?r fear visited they have
not much lessened either. They have brought
all the world face To face; but whether this
action has tended iinm"dli;ely, 10 decrease
human suffering. 10 d"'r-ase the probahlll-
OF themselves they have not reformed land
probably will mott. a condition that has eH-
isted from the time when man first took up
ming mans conflict with nature. with Wild
beasts and with disease was NOT 40 fierce as