The Republican journal., 1902-01-23
NINETEENTH CENTURY'S
REQUEST TO THE TWENTIETH

..r. narrow minded ask. is this one of our
... ur is he a stranger? ut to those VINO are
sublr disposition, the whole world is but one
-..., Ancient Hindu.
f.tu shalt love thy ncighhor as thyself."
Matt, % :39,
Ne stand today upon the threshold
., A second year of the century. Is 1T
-.- .tting that we should pause to con-
.I.r What the past year. the first of the
uutth century, has taught us? In
rr that we may fully comprehend
...I relation to the procession of the
odds life, and the duties that are i'll
....s time what this century has inherit
rom the last.
lar nineteenth century was the most
.lkabe one i'll all the worlds his
. for its marvellous progress and
s.apment in both material and I'M
-.. ..fiaI things. AS a result of this
.erful experience and development
...5 did it gather to bequeath to this
AIRY:
.uf Dolbear of Tufts College, in
mild paper before the Congress of
uons in Boston two years ago,
M some of the material bequests
Lee nineteenth century to the tWen-
IN this statement:
THE nineteenth century received
is predecessors the horse; we be-
l., Ia
ltOmObIle; we received the goose
1nd bequeath the typewriter: we
Vrt the scythe, we bequeath the
ug machine; we received the sickle,
.aueath the harvester; We received
and printing press, we bequeath
hoe cylinder press, we received
-Yus dictionary; we bequeath the
hurry dictionary: we received the
el canvas, we bequeath 1thog-
photography, and color photog-
rs we received the hand loom, we
.rHA the cotton and wooden fac
We received gun-poWder we be
.tl nitro glycerine; we received the
. tfp, we bequeath the arc light
.- Standard Oil Company; we re-
I Ia- hint-lOck. we bequeath auto
rug Maxim guns; we received
ug snip. we beQueath the steam
-r greyhound of the sea; we re-
4 The trigate Constitution, we
ttt the battleShip, the Oregon:
-.eNtd the beacon signal ti}e. we
.tl the telephone and wireless
.nlv. we received wood and stone
r0lrtureS. We Oequtath twenty
i ~kYScrapers of steel. such are
u the bequests of the nineteenth
N -o the twentieth.
jjd Prof. polbear express the
nfouS advance in material de-
aent i'm the last century. These
.r4 beuuestS, accompanied by the
.taal leQuests, have added greatly
nn equipment, and have entirely
med modes of life, industries
aus of enjoyment.
scientific bequest of tie nine
rutury to the twentieth is also
nayrlous. May | quote one i'll
to illustrate this wonderful de-
ucUt: The astronomer has at
u-ans Of spanning the universe:
-lI4S us the measure of it and sets
salaries to it, lie says the most
.ut- star cannot be farther distant
.U -Uuuo times the distance to the
west star The distance to the near
.t u.r ueighbors is such that it takes
iuui wears for its light to reach us,
.-l travelling at the rate of lS6, ,000
.- peY second. But POO 900 times four
Is eon,0oo years, and that star
lave been shining 500, 600 years or
.H not see it; and if it were an
t.d today it would continue to
iur nearly million years This
ulse at kind of knowledge and
of precision which was impossi-
t lately but due to instruments
"-thods which had not been imagin-
tlI now"
]st be observed that this is only
Adse of the wonderful possibili-
the scientific development. All
amendous accumulation of facts
Eperience, which ultimately be-
tlle CGllellOn Oh lIulll, lfle nine
--tl century has bequeathed to the
.-.ut one We must remember, how
hat the credit for all this does not
lg to the nineteenth century alone.
marvellous progress is all built upon
experience of the past centuries.
here has been no century of the
.-- IN which progress has taken such a
d forward as in the last. TO the
1e inheritance from the past CEN
rs il has added polish and contribut-
uost marvellous discoveries and i'm
ments.
With such a heritage the twentieth
.4ry has opened Who can even
-ur the possibilities of its growth?
unot comprehend what has been
mpliShed by the last century of life
less, then, can we even dream of
Aeutieth, for as has been said, ut
not yet appear what we shall be. :"
we have taken hasty'glance at
eat material and intellectual de
ment of the last century and the
to the new century. We turn
lglon. We inquire if the unpre-
ted development of material and
ctual things have so engaged the
nu of men as to cause them
ect the religious development?
did the nineteenth century do for
uu,
rreiyed from the previous cen