New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-01-10
VoTUME xxII No y sEW7 "
NJ Y WEDNFsDAY JAN.lo 1000. WHOLE \ NUMBER Il Is.
HE (,ENTUIR[Y's PROGRESS.


BE oENTUl Is PRO d j oaREss
ine nine enfll cen fur according e
Alired Russell ~ al lace, is entitled Is i.
Known l' as t.the wonde erful cent? y,', fol
it cl.fpnic cles the greatest al evements
Iall aleng the lines of science, ethics, in d.
yentiolls, etc. The New York Herald,
sum ul lu llarizing ..heses advances, says that
m iu the years that have gone there may may
be rec koned a an ast tonishing mum ber 81
new lnventio aud pratical applications
LET science which are perfectly new de-
parttires, and which have SO rapidly de-
[yeloped IS to have prof foundl u affected
lonr habits Of tboug ght, our ethical stan
dards, oul comforts, our possibilities and
even Dur i lang guage.
Steam has been applied to land and
water yigation. Gas lighting has en-.
ormou ously improved outdoor and other
Illuminate Electricity, which may
eventually supplant steam as . motive
power and gas as an illuminant, has al
ready proved its usefulness ii the tele-
graphsand teleph BY annihilating dis
tance tam and bringing the whole world into
Immediate mutual communication.
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Friction matches have revolutionized tile
methods Of obtaining fire, Photography
has called q new and wonderful art into
being The phonograph reproduces and
preserves sounds as photography repro
duces and preserves forms. 4 .5: u s
The Roentgen rays brings the use of
photography into the hidden recesses of
nature which no other art has been able
to reach. The spectrum analysis enab-
les US to determine the chemical consti-
tuents Of the entire solar system. i. The
use Of anaesthetics and antiseptics has
allevia.ed pain in surgical operations
and extended the means OF saving life.
Any one Of theseinventions and dis
coveries would have suficed to signalize
the century in which they were made.
No eighteenth or sixteenth century dis
covery can parallel them. The telescope
in the seventeenth century; the printing
press, IN the fifteenth, and the mariners
compass, in the fourteenth, may indeed
be grouped with them in the first class.
But these are the only achievements of
this class from the beginning of our
times back to the Middle Ages. Prior
to that arithmetic, algebra and the al
phabet are the only great epochal dis
coveries to be noted in the abysmal re-
cesses Of time. ~
Y. In the line of theoretical discoveries,
the conservation of energy, the cell the.
ory, the..germ theory, theory ofevolution,
and many additlons to oar know
ledge in geology, chemistry and physics
are all pregnant with mighty issues for
I the futt re, over and above their actual
delivery Of woodworking truth in the
present, AS against these, only the
foundations Of modern chemistry and Of
electrical science were laid in the eigh-
teenth, while the seventeenth century, d
tritle richer, yields among epochal dis
coveries the theories of gravltation,
kepler's laws, the circulation ofthe blood
! and fuxion andtAe diferential calculus.
Back Of the seventeenth century1no i'm
portant Or farreaching theories were
bloached. For an adequate com parison
with the nineteenth century it is impos-
lsibIe, therefore, to take any one prior
}century, and evenSa comparison with the
wh whole prece ding epoch in human history
leaves the palm with the present. !: " 4