Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-27
CHAPTER Xxx.

"THESE questions are the next
questions to which research
will bring us answers" said
Karenin. "While we sit here
and talk idly and inexactly 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 perplexities of the situation be-
tween man and woman and the
trouble with the obstinacy of ego
tism-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.
ings 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"
1T Is the next wave," said Fowler.
who had come out upon the terrace
and seated himself silently behind
Karenin's chair.
"Of course, in the old days." said
Edwards. "men were tied to their city
or their country, tied to the homes they
owned or the work they did"
Il do not see," said Karenin, that
there is any final limit to mans power
Of self notification
There 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-
lutte limit to either knowledge or power
l hope you do not tire yourself talk.
ing"
II am interested" said Karenin. Il
suppose in little while men will cease
to be tired. l suppose in little time
you will give us something that will
hurry away the fatigue products and
restore our faded tissues almost at
once. This old machine may be made
to run without Stacking or cessation"
"That is possible. Karenin. But
there is much to learn"
And all the hours we give to diges.
ton and half living. Don't you think
there will 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-it
Is only hundred years or so ago that
was done-then it followed he would
presently resent his eight hours OF
uselessness. 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."
"Frobisher and Ameer Ali have done
work in that direction"
"And then the Inconvenience of age
and those diseases of the system that
come with years; steadily you drive
them back and you lengthen and
lengthen 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
tinually lengthening, continually fuller
term Of years. And all those parts OF
him that once gathered evil against
him, the vestigial structures and ode
treacher0us corners of his body, you
know better and better how to dea
with. You carve his body about and
leave it remodeled and unscarred. The
psychologists are learning how to mole
minds, to reduce and remove bad com
plexes Of thought and motive, to re
l1eve pressures and broaden ideas. ST
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 thu
individual man to its own end. Il
that not SOP"
Fowler said that it was, and for 6
time he was telling KareLfn of new
work that was in progress in Indis
and Russia. And how is it with he
redity" asked Karenin.
Fowler told them Of the mass of I'm
quiry accumulated and arranged by
the genius Of Tchen, who was begin
ming to define clearly the laws Of in
heritance and how the sex of children
and the compilations and many of thu
parental qualities could be determined
He can actually do
1T is still, so to speak, a mere labora
tory triumph" said Fowler, but to
morrow it will be practicable"
"You see" cried karenin, turning Q