Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-02-17
IN THE new CENTURY.
Some Representations Of Emf
nent Frenchmen.
VIEW OF FRANCES CHEF CHEMIST

VIEW OF FRANCIS OHIEF OhbAlSI
nertheiot Relieves the Future Of Mo-
tor Power Belongs 90 Petroleum
and Gas-Gahriei Monod ON the Adj .
vance OF sociaIism-i.iternture aud
the Arts.
on and 90 during the past few weeks
the Paris press has made an amuse-
ment OF proguosticatious Of the CEN
tury 10 come. Men eminent IN science
aud literature and art. and trusted OBJ
servers OF the course OF contemporary
history, have been drawn with success.
writes the Paris correspondent Of the
New York Post NJ. Berthelot, the
chief chemist OF France during the last
half century. the friend Of Rcnan, who
led with him the young intellectuals
OF 1918: the member elect OF the French
Academy 20 represent science In that
body. as pasteur did In his day, has
| given an opinion on practical things
on the development 81 machinery by
the use Of motor power. He declares
frankly against steam. which. he says.
is already growing obsolete. while cleo
triclty, which Is only an Intermediary
between the material source % energy
and its application, will always cost
too much 20 become the motor force OF
common Industrial life. For him the
future OF motor power belongs 20 pc
troleum aud 20 gas. The steam engine
will be relegated 10 museums wher'
other anthropologcal curiosltles ar
collected from the stone age down. i
viii be remembered that NJ. Berthelo
long since predicted that the time o
chemical feeding Of humanity Is I
come, when we shall carry beefsieak
and breadstuns IN our vest pockets
) ia the shape Of convenient pellets sur
plying the necessary elements, carbon'
nzotes. phosphates and the rest I
needy Tissues: but this reform be doe
not announce for the twentieth century
e The Pasteur people. with Metschinikoi
:, nj their head. have also given owe
e promising serums TO save from oil
n age. but they foresee with reasonanl
hope remedies for cancer. cousumptio
and the plague.
In political and social history \
= Gabriel Monod has prophesled graz
" things. OF which more elemenini
u vision has had gllmnses Tor some tiu
II past. The influence OF NJ. Monod unl
II recently was almost preponderant
il France IN historical studies. His lor
"A wears az the Ecole Normale SUPERIOR
-. where men like ex.Minister Hanota'
passed under him; NJ the Ecole "
~ tioue des Hautes Etudes OF the 81
e bonne. OF which he has been n chi
k. organizer. and the foundation Of I
u Revue Hlstorique. which was due
- him. give him n place apart HIS
n. longing to noted family Of Protes'a
clergymen aud bis pronounced sta
IN favor OF the innocence OF Dreyi
'' nav have made his name unpopu
~ Of late, but they have scarcely less
ed ed the esteem In which he is held
judicial moderation and breadth
IL view. He announces plainly for
n. twentieth century the advance aud
triumph Of socialism.
~. or course. this does not mean u
4. any special school or party Of what
ID" now called socialists will necessaI
seize on political power. but that
an tendencies making for what Is PROF
ir. Is called socialism are contained In
ais present evolution % society and
bound 20 prevail. Just rs democr
M. has constantly progressed with the
"A. fury that Is past The triumph OF
-. mocracy itself is far from being G
''S plete. and Il has left train OF rev
.hu tons. more or less bloody, behind ]
wo France. Tolstoi. In Maltre LabC
NJ, Grande Revue OF this MONTH IN
10 ~ the modern slavery and ENDS
present day government Is univers
n organized violence. Anatole, Fra
-, in lighter vein. defines the organ
- justice Of society as the organiza
= OF force.
With these opinions. smelling OF
SKI archy. from the sages and philosopI
lelr OF the day IN the background Il W.
nc. not be strange that other reyolut
,nts should be 10 store for us, but socia
as IL is, with two ministers In the
,,. ernment-M. Millerand for comm
"a and Industry and NJ. BaudlD for pr
Eu' works-goes along peaceably emo
II would be curious TO sum up
measures taken since is4s and not
full practice, which were then col
cred altogether revolutionary. A
OF the political weather prophets
<. yentured 70 foresee In the coming y