The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
1900 CENTURY OF ACHIEVEMENTS 1900
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almost forgotten. The same is true of
Australia. whose interior deserts have
been crossed by daring explorers un-
der terrible haTdshipS, and of a good
part of Asia. The opening up of
Africa. however. is hardly second IN
importance to b circumnavigatpn of
the Cape of Good Hope. Fifty years
ago barely the rim of the dark CONT
nent was known. Now, thank To Bur
ton and Spoke and Livingstone and
Stanley, every one of its great riddles
has been solved, the sources of the Nile.
the water system of the Congo and the
Niger and the Zambesi. the dwarts.
and the Mountains of n Moon. IL
has been crossed from south to north,
and from west to east across Its great
est breadth. while the crossing from
the Congo to the Zanzibar coast has
become a commonplace journey. The
powers of Europe have divided the Ll-
ritOry among themselves and are push
ing IN with railroad and telegraph.
There are no o great geographical
discoveries possible on land. but sell
ence has turned its attention to the
bottom of the sea, and the sounding
lead is charting the ocean beds.
Exploring Dim Past of History
New methods and points of view
have entered into every branch a-
learning. The discovery OF SanSkIll zen
TO the comparison of languages WIN
each other. and the establishment OF
their relationship. The principle OF
comparison was extended 10 the la~-
as well. and the historical method 90
Investigation has spread To science d.-.-
In collecting and establishing facts Ilr
aid of experimental science mas '5--
called in The aid of the p~hysig-9-lSL-
for instance, has been needed by me
philOlOgiSt to UnTaVel the problem '-
human Gn1nrh while the It... ...a--.
has called upon him to explain me
workings of the human brain RUM
bier aids have not been seorneL- WIN
pick and shovel the archaeo-o2lSl has
brought to light the ancient tiEi.'lf
of Egypt and the implements ~ i'.-
tive man. he has dug out the mum vt.
Priam and laid bare the Roman .'.I"
and read from the clay tablets l.. ~
gotten language Of the ASSyriduS II
no age has the pursuit of learning H-t"
so general; in no age have the means
for its attainment. books, libraries "-
seums, teaching institutions, '-.- -
plentiful.
Literature, Music and Arts
In the domains of letters the a.le-
tenth century has well heel" ..
with its predecessors. lt may H'.
any name OF the very first la.N
Goethe. the poet, can hardly %.
ed in it. but no past century DID, ..
erature can match the list that -..-
from Scott to TennysOn, from
Hugo TO Reuar, from Heine I'd"
sen. Its philosophy extends
Hegel to Herbert Spencer. Ill
it had the greatest of a..
Beethoven. MeudeIssChu. Chop. .
Wagner. In art alone, Cr".i..a.
its productions ave been has il
to approach the great WoIa-
past.
t has been a century of sa H.
founding achievement b I'll d. .
hapS natural to believe that I-..
be no. other equal to it, ana D.
than one branch of science n-.
the opinion that The Fundamental
lens have been solved and that I'D. .'
ture can develop only along IN. '
marked out in the nineteenth '
Past history. however. shows DO n
to the capacities for deVeloH.- n
the human race and the hlS-".'' -.r--
the twentieth century may nave "
as wonderful a tale to tell.
copyrighted, 1900, by GeorEe -.-''