Smyrna times., 1901-01-09
TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSPECTS.
nall Caue. the English Novelist, Gives iu
His Vision of 1t.

| 49, I'LL "Aui COS IcCeHIly, with the pros
pect OF seeing 1850 if one lives the al
lotted span of three score and ten, is tC
be heir to an inheritance better and
greater than the richest millionaire
can leave behind him." While Mr..
Game does not expect the millennium
to be ushered in during the twentieth
century, he believes that civilization
will make extraordinary advances in
the next fifty years and the world will
be much better place to live in than
it has been heretofore.
In the twentieth century Mr.. Caine
is confident the political state of man
will improve by the still further recog-
milton OF the falseness of all forms of
arrogated authority and by the recog-
milton OF mans natural right to rule
himself. The nineteenth century has
been the peoples century; the twen-
tleth is to be the century of humanity.
Education and Travel" the only
true socialists, breaking down the bar
rlers of language and the prejudices
which result therefrom will make war
rarer thing than it has been in the
past, until finally it will be so seen that
as a means of settling international
disputes, it is brutal, barbarous and
impossible" This is to come to pass
not mainly by the development of the
highest or by ''the eternal religion in
the human soul, but chiefly in the
operation of a purely natural law.
This law will make aggressive warfare
an insane thing and will make an armed
peace a ruinOus and ridiculous form of
war in disguise.
The twentieth century, according to
Mr.. Caine, is to break down race bar
rlers. In the new century of human
lty 1T will be proved that it is foolish
and unciviliZed for an Englishman to
hate or distrust Frenchman as such.
or for Frenchman to hate OF distrust
an Engllshman as such. Race preiu |
dlces will be recognised as "confes-
slons OF our ignorance of life and mar
rowness of the human sympathies."
Men will think less of fighting and
conquest and more about Improving
The condition of mankind without re-
gard to nationality or racial distinc-
ions. The new century's mission will
'e one of moral welfare. The health
II the people will be advanced bv dis
overies in medicine and surgery.
naladles now regarded as incurable
vii be wiped out Death itself will
'ecome more natural and less acciden-
al. Commercial morality will improve
y the popular control which will come
i the development of the peoples law.
jhrlstendOm is to be united "bv the
weeping away of some of the dogma
&c lmpedlments which separate man !
rom man and man from his Maker. "
'ravel will become cheaper aud the !
atlons OF the world will know more
bout each other. Furthermore what
"noblest and best in the dreams of
'clallsm will be realized in the State /.
'ntrol OF great trusts, great syndi- =
ties and great congresses"
Mr.. Caine drew a rosy picture of the
lture without disparaging the past
ne nineteenth century has been
arked by many noble advances in q
lence, IN humanity and physical de- =
lopment. 1t has brought about
any changes in the peoples health.
mfort and education, as Mr.. Caine
lnts out. The morality ofthe century
IS been better than at any previous Fl
rlod, IN his opinion. The worst
mmercial immortality of this century
would bear no comparison for inioui.
with some of the same kind which y
Ok place In the eighteenth century a.
tably the South sea bubble in 1920 +" IT
The religious life of the people has
en- higher than in the previous cen. :: -
fy; literature has played a greater -
RI In the education of the people. !:
liter the servitude of the feudal cen - -
hes, it has been reserved for the ~ y.
leteenth century to proclaim the ~
al emancipation of woman. and with -
as a gracious part of it, the legal ~, ~
ognltion of the natural rights of :.
-ldren. But the condition of the ~
ole human family is to be still fur- ~ ~
II improved in the twentieth cen. a. a.
y, partly by greater municipal mr. ="
, partly by virtue of the new politi- an
doctrine which makes it the first ls'
ty OF Parliament to legislate in the St
erests of the poor and weak" -
lr. Gaines prophecy as to the future
optimistic and inspiring. The
rid is to grow constantly better and
,pier. In view of the mighty forces an
II physical and moral, which are res
coming into play one may agree an
h the English novelist that "to be po
ing at the beginning of the twen- wh
n century, with all the marvels il inc
st surely unfold, would be almost col
greatest blessing and the highest Pr
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