The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-13

preached, vae opened .ln 1851. Re-
Gently it was burned. The new build
ing on the same site was dedicated
last autumn. Forty-five minutes were
required in lighting the old Taberna.
cle The new Tabernacle, with its
four hundred and twenty-seveu eleo-
irio globes, oas 10 ;iisihiedi in forty. i've
seconds. The change in the time
taken and in the method aud material
used, illustrates the advance made in
almost every department. OF human
life in the nineteenth century and the
legacy it bequeaths to the century We
are entering. IN 1174 the streets of
Boston were frst lighted with OIL
lamps, which were then new inven-
ton, and gas was first burned in that
city in 1923. But practically during
the last century the civilized world
has passed from the tallow dip, through
the smoky oil lamp, the gas jet and
petroleum burner, to the incandescent
a,c light.
It may truly be said chat in the
nineteenth century civilized man has
come to know the universe, the world
he lives in, and himself. It may also
be said that the knowledge he has
gained is not only the expansion Of
what he possessed before, but largely
new kind Of knowledge, conclusions
from discovered facts taking the
place Of theories based On g1esses.
At the beginning Of the century the
wisest scholars, as we'll as the CON-
mon people generally, believed that
the universe sprang into being about
six thousand gears ago. In the year
1893 the Marquis Dc Lapiace brought
out the first of the five volumes Of
the Mscanique Celeste, discussing
the possibility that q vast gaseous
mass, under the laws Of gravitation
and celestial mechanics, would in time
condcnse into worlds round central
body-that is, that solar systeH
would be evolved. It was the work of
later years to discover that worlds ex-
ist whose light has required many
times six thousand years to travel to
ibis earth. Not till less than forty
years ago was it revealed through the
spectroscope that gaseous masses are
all the time going through the process
Of world making:in all stages Of con-.
densation. These are steps in the
great discovery Of The last century,
that e-e.:;sa IS . continuous process
extending back through unmeasured
aous Of time. Within hundred
years the four-inoh lens Of the tele-
scope has grown TO the four foot lens;
the number Of stars in view has in.
creased from one million to hundred
millions, and by means Of other in
struments the stare have been weigh
ed and measured and their component
parts described.
The microscope, the geologist' 8
hammer, and other Instruments, nave
brought out no less wonderful discov-
cries in this earth on which we live.
Condensed from o gaseous mass. it was
once too hot for any kind oflife to ex- :
ist on it. But from myriad minute
atoms forms Of life have developed,
ever growing more complex in their
structure and functions through un-
measured perioda Of time. From the
gaseous masses out Of which. worlds
are in process Of making, through all
torms Of life up to man, the energy Of
the universe is ever being evolved in
continuous creation. This is the new
knowledge which the. nineteenth cen
tury bequeaths to the twentieth.
We can better appreciate the results
Of the application Of discovered laws
In Inventions 90 increase our powers
and add to our enjoyment. Only the
more important Of these can be men
| toned here. The means Of communi-
eatlng thcaght have increased amaz.
iusly. The goose quill began TO be
1splaced by tho steel pen in 1923;
out this has been followed by the
fountain pen, the typewriter, and she
,@'meograph. Tho hand printing press
has developed into the pcrfeotipg
press; the hand-placed types ere being
pushed out by the linotype. Tho
seventeen daily aud tvs hundred week
y ,a newspapers in the United States in
loul have increased to about two
thousand two hundred dailies and fif.
,een thousand weeklies, whose com.
''ned circulation is moro than three
4 aud quarter billions os copies per
4 year. The first use Of envelopes for
:s'ters in 1893, and Of postage stamps
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