The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-04-18

in the twelfth century and rejected Tor
nearly a hundred years because 1t was
believed to be the work of the devil,
had by the end of the thirteenth CEN
fury come into general use. and here
and there clustered scholars and stu
dent navigators began to wonder II the
sea that washed the shores of Western
Europe was not the same that washed
the shores of Eastern Asia. and
whether it was not possible to sail
westward into the East.
Generations "bloomed out, loved and
hated and rustled of, and the rolling
and tramping of new generations
passed over them"
The earth was torn by wars Of spo-
liation, conquest and religion; Europe
fought back the Moors and Moslema
and organized the Crusaders.
A little later men began to Kill one
another with gunpowder and thereafter
brute strength had no monopoly A
little later they learned to print their
thoughts on paper with movable blocks
and printing press, and thereafter
there was no monopoly of knowledge
by few.
A little later a man was born near
Genoa destined to demonstrate that
the Sea of Darkness" had another
shore and to lift the veil from con-
tinent where in the course OF time
there should be founded under God a
nation-"consecrated to liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal"
Man knows now that the earth is
round, because he lives around 1t, has
travelled around 1t, strung cable and
telegraph systems around 1t, and talks
around 1t constantly by wire and by
wireless.
But the. rotundity of the earth and
it's habitation on opposite sides, which
are now accepted always, everywhere
and by ALL" was for centuries a sub
ject of learned disputation and the
illogical controversy in which the
scriptures we're constantly invoked
against the theory of the antipodes
and punishment was inflicted here and
salvation was denied hereafter to
those who dared dispute the theologi-
cal argument.
Time Is Long or Short.
Time is mystery. The time of the
earth's rotation or Of its circuit round
the sun is long or short, as we live 1t.
1t may be a too brief happiness or a
lingering torture. Some grow I'd be-
fore they have time to be y0uns.
Past time is not now future time Is
not yet. and present time has no dur
alton.
In the universe of eternity there is
no rising and setting Of suns no day,
no night, no years, no centuries. Sun
time Is merely local time in it's rela-
ton to eternity.
Human chronology belongs to this
solar system alone and we measure
time while the sun shines and throws
shadows against a background which
we call history.
Conquerors and kings, lawgivers.
and charlatans, millionaires and men,
dicants have come and gone their way
in pomp and squalor, out of mystery
into mystery, and the sun and the
wise, experienced stars look down and
give no hint of human destination.
mo philosophy will ever satisfy
men which cannot throw plank
across the grave"
We are still baffled by the Elusive
illumination that some call individual
lty and others call soul.
All our philosophy, all our cropping
speculation and reasoning leave the
mystery of the future as mysterious
as ever and yet as imperative as ever.
Bacon says:
IF a man mediate much upon the
universal frame of nature. the earth
with men upon 1.-THE divineness of
the soul excepted-will not seem much
other than an ant hill where some ants
carry corn and some carry their young
and all go to and from a little heap of
dust"
II the hope Of continued conscious
existence after death Of the body ever
fades out of human thinking, then
the light will have gone out Of the
world; the deepest inspiration to right
living will have ended and human
existence will have become mean
ingless tragedy
That hope transforms Bacon's ant
heap and dignifies human existence.
With that hope we journey on to
speculative issues
We may put back the clock or set
1t ahead or stop 1t altogether. but time
goes on and present time has no dur
alton.
The question of daylight saving"
of setting the clock ahead is not new.
1t is said that Benjamin Franklin
originated the idea, but In 1907 an
Englishman named William Willett
published pamphlet on Waste Of
Daylight" and since 1916 all the ma
tons of Europe except Russia, Greece
and the Balkan countries have adopt