The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-10
tContinued,).
CHAPTER xx.

questions to which research
 will bring us answers said
 Karenin. While we sit here and talk idly and sinexactly of what is needed and what may be, there are hundreds of keen witted men and women who are working these things out, dispassionately and certainly, for the love of Knowledge The next sci ence to yield great harvests now will be psychology and neural physiology. These perpleuties of the situation be tween man and woman and the trouble with the obstinacy of ego tisnn-these are temporary troubles, the issue Of our own times. Suddenly all these differences that seem so fixed will dissolve, all these incompatibles will run together, and we shall go on to mold our bodies and our bodily feel 1ngs and personal reactions as boldly as we begin now to carve mountains and set the seas in their places and change the currents of the winds z
 esIt is the next wave" said Fowler, who had come out upon the terrace and seated himself silently behind Karenin's chair. 5
 ttOf course, in the old days said Edwards, linen were tied to their city or their country, tied to the homes they owned or the work they did.'
 s.I do not see,'' said Karenin, ssthat there is any final limit to mans power of self modidcation.,s 7
 ssThere is none,' said Fowler, walk ing forward and sitting down upon the parapet in front of Karenin so that he could see his face. There is no abso- Iute limit to either knowledge or power. T hope you do not tire yourself talk mg.''
 .sI am interested. ]. said Karenin. sI suppose in a little while men will cease to be tired. [ suppose in little time you will give us something that will hurry away the fatigue products and restore our jaded tissues almost at once. This old machine may be made , to run without slacking or cessation-''
 That Is possible, Karenin. But there is much to learn.
 .sAnd all the hours we give to diges- tfon and half living. Don't you think there win be some way of saving these? ?''
 Fowler nodded assent
 And then sleep again. When man with his blazing lights made an end to night in his towns and houses sit is only a hundred years or 50 ago that was done then it followed he would presently resent his eight hours of usefessness. Shan't we presently take tabloid or lie In some field Of force that will enable us to do with an hour or so of slumber and then rise refresh ed again ?'s
 .Frobisher and Ameer Alt have done work in that direction''
 .sAnd then the inconveniences of age and those diseases of the system that come with years; steadily you drive them back and you lengthen and 1engthen the years that stretch between the passionate tumults of youth and the contractions of senility. Man. who used to weaken and die as his teeth decayed. now looks forward to a con tinuaIly lengthening, continually fuller term Of years. And all those parts of him that once gathered evil against him, the vestigfal structures and odd treacherous corners of his body, you know better and better how to deal with. You carve his body about and leave it remode1ed and unscarred. The psychologists are learning how to mold minds, to reduce and remove bad com plexes of thought and motive, to re- 1ieve pressures and broaden Ideas. So that we are becoming more and more capable of transmitting what we have learned and preserving it for the race. The race, the racial wisdom, science, gather power continually to subdue the indfvidual man to its own end. Is that not so ??
 Fowler said that it was, and for a time he was telling Karenin Of new work that was in progress in India and Russia 'sAnd how is it with he redity P, asked Karenin.
 Fowler told them of the mass of in- qufry accumulated and arranged by the genius of Tchen. who was begin ming to defin@ clearly the laws of in- heritance and how the sex of children and the comp1exions and manX of the parental qualities could be detefmineo.
 He can actually do''
 'sIt is still, so to speak. a mere labora- tory triumph" said Fowler, 'rbut to- morrow it will be practica ble.''
 ssYou see. cried Karenin, turning a laughing face to Rachel and Edith, while we have been theorizing about men and women, here is science getting the power for us to end that old dis for us we'll reduce her to minority, and if we do not like any type of men and women we'll have no more of it. These old bodies, these old animal linn itations, all this earthy inheritance of gross inevitabilities, falls from the spirit of man like the shriveled cocoon from an image. And for my own part, when I hear of these things I feel like that-like a wet, crawling. new moth that still fears to spread it's wings, be cause where do these things take us P
 Beyond humanity" said Kahn.
 ttNo,'' said Karenin. 'sWe can still keep our feet upon the earth that made us. But the air no longer imprisons us. This round planet is no longer chained to us like the. ball of a galley l slave. In a little while men who will know how to bear the strange grav1ta- I tions the altered Ijress1res the atten