The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-01

spectroscope, photography and the
roentgen rays may be said to- be the
next inventions of greatest Importance
to mankind il we except the fast
presses and the type-setting machines.
Those things have revolutionized the
labor and thought of the world, so
that the change between the ways of
the twentieth century man and the
early nineteenth century man are
greater than between the man of the
fifteenth and nineteenth century.
Great as have been the changes
wrought by gas, electricity. railroads,
steamboat, telegraph and telephones
the boy of today will witness still
greater development in these and like
inventions. Most of them are in their
infancy. They are too costly for COM
mon use, but it is question of a short
time when they will be so extended,
improved and cheapened as to be with
in the reach of all mankind, and to re-
not now dreamed of by the most ex-
pert electrician.
In literature, in art, i'm war, in explo-
ration and in religion the past CEN
tury has surpassed all its predeces-
sors. In the implements of war the
most noted invention is the Calling
oIlO tba rrOG1to+ of +Ia canine ~ :,
North Carolinian. DR.. Gatling firmly
believes that the Gatling gun is de-
stined to- win the world into peace
because it is so deadly that nations
cannot afford to go to war.
What will the new century bring to
us? None of us who witness its birth
will be here when it draws its last
breath. 1t will bring happiness, sue
cess, honors to some; to others it holds
in store unhappiness, failure, disap-
pointment. The new century will be
like the old century. The new CEN
fury man will be like the old century
man, and, for that matter, like the
man who wore tig-leaves. Man today
is as man was six thousand years
ago. The human heart has not chang
ed. Everything else has been revolu-
tionized, but man is the same yester-
loves and ambitions that fired the
breasts of the first man is found with
the last. He has changed his dress,
the cut of his hair; he lives in heated
and lighted houses and rides on fast
flying trains; he reads daily papers
by brilliant man-made light-all the
environment is different, but man is
the same. That fact ought never to
be forgotten. What man has made is
subject to change.
Let the great world spin forever.
Down the ringing groove of change"
hut what God has made in his own
image is not and cannot be subject
to- change in its essential parts.
Mans duties and obligations are more
complex, but ''Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as myself is the rule that
man must obey today as whenFthe
world was young. To most men the
new century will be to them what they
make it, as ere all ages, cycles and cen
turtles. "Tie world is looking glass;"
said Thackery, land it returns to you
the reflection you cast upon it. Smile
upon it; it smiles back upon you.
Frown upon it; and the darkling
frown is turned upon you.' The man
and woman who wish the new century
to bring them the good things their
hearts desire, will go into it with hope
and faith. with love for their fellows,
and with the high ideal that service is
the only way to enduring usefulness
and to permanent happiness.
I'VE are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling, -
To be living is sublime"