The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-14

such works as depicted scenes of human
sentiment and love; women looking GU
| with Wistful gaze on the seas where
their man-fok sailed; children playing
IN the fields; modest maidens listening
TO the wooing of their lovers. And they
ceased to find any charm in lovely
hooks amid the hills, or meanderins
| streams, or stretches of blue ocean, OF
sunset clouds, And by degrees these
gave place to the works OF artists in
the studios of the temple, some OF
| them pictures Of battle, with many fig
| ures contorted in the agonies of death;
some of them sensuous, feshly pictures,
In which all light of the ideal was
| erased from the human form,-till the
| galleries became mere feeding-places
for the evil passions that Turk in the
| hearts Of men,
| But, as for the roaring, furnaces and
throbbing engines in the department of
manufacture, these became buster every
day; and splendid wares of metal and
OF porcelain, and gorgeous tapestries
and flashing silks, and every article Of
luxury and self-indulgence, were turned
out in myriads. But, as the breathless
industries increased, there came to be
terrible sacrifice of human life.
Deadly fumes rolled through the work.
shops. Fine dust filings filled the
lungs. Now and again laborer fell
into the consuming flames, or a girl was
caught In the whr of the machinery.
But the overseers needed not; and
faster and faster flew the wheels and
higher and higher leapt the flames
The great exchange where men chat
fered and bartered was alive with eager
merchants and reckless spectators
Enormous sums changed hands
Boundless fortunes were made by some.
Others were cleaned out, in few hours,
of all they possessed. But every man
was keen for himself alone And, when
the ruined skunk away to find a corner
where pistol shot or phial would put
an end to their troubles, none needed
and none pitied. 1t only left the fewer
competitors in the great and furious
game.
But it was in the laboratories of sci
ence that there was the highest hope
and the most eager enthusiasm.
knowledge for It's own sake was the
gospel Of the schools. Every secret Of
nature was to be pierced. Every nerve
of every sentisnt creature was to be ex-
posed. And by degrees the biological
became the absorbing cen
ter of interest and activity. Every kind |
of living thing was piled with every |
new product of the chemists laboratory |
to test it's action on the tissues Every |
sort of disease was artifcially induced, |
that physician and anatomist might |
test its quality. Legions Of new bac-
terra were created by cunning of the
adopts, and introduced into the living |
systems of countless animals. No an
esthetics were ever used, for they only
nterfered with the exactitude, of exper-
ment. Rabbits and dogs and horses
we're kept alive for months, while every |
portion of their frames were skilfully
llssected. And at last 1t was agreed in
he schools that the GROWING truths Of
biology could only be reached IL human
subjects were submitted to the like ex-
pertinent. And nightly from the poorer
md weaker denizens of the temple
hundreds were seized for the investiga-
ions of the ensuing day.
So Jared 1t In the great temple of the
,ingdom Of man,-this vast Enclosure
where the spirit Of God was not. And
he year 5000 had not rolled out the full
ale of it's three hundred and sixty daye
re that temple dedicated with such
old and confident hopes had become a
cry kingdom of hell, seething mass !
f struggle and violence and hate and ,
ameless greeds and lusts
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tretched forth his hand, and, behold !
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