The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-13
Only Thoughts and Science Last
What Men Do With Their Hands Today and Call
Wonderful Is Childish Tomorrow.


The real wonder of wonders the brains power working
through science, producing miracles that live forever
scientific truth outves the pyramids column of marble
sword Of steel
And in the thought there is power than in all the
worlds armies, hatreds and ambitions
About two hundred years before the birth of Christ Anti
pater Of Sdon first made list of the worlds wonders
They he enumerated the the walls Of Babylon
gone The statue of Zeus chief god by Phydias of
Olympia The hanging gardens Of Babylon The great bronze
statue called the Colossus Of Rhodes foot either side
the waterway ships passing between its Outsretched legs
The pyramids Of Egypt built by Egyptian kings for their
tombs The mausoeum built by King Mausoeus to hold his
corpse and the wonderful Temple Of Artemis in Ephesus
The Temple Of Diana burned Oy q slave determined
that his should live in history law passed forbid
ding the use of his name which was Herostraus Il has lived
spite of the law All the wonders that kings created Of
stone and metal fade away but scientific wonders
Acmede in his bathtub observing that his BODY entering
the full tub caused certain water to flow out
devised method Of establishing the specific gravity solids
base alloy had been mixed with gold He wanted to find
out but didn't want to melt the crown.
Lying in his bathtub Archmedes got the ideaumped out
II have found it,
His body has gone back to and dust. King Hero
who learned how his made has gone the bath
tub and the water But the truth remains.
In the days of Antpater the works of man mind being
small the works Of his hands seemed big Painfully hundreds
Slowly ancient workers carved the face the huge sphinx
with the Ethiopian features teaching that the black race
The king declared his grandeur by doing something BIG
now ne blg thing ism size or brute force but THOUGHT
which created inside of human skull the thin LAYER of
gray matter outside of the white brain substance
The greatest idea scientific created in part of
me human mind so small that you could put the head
that IS ONE OF THE WORLDS PERMANENT SEVEN
WONDERS. AA
What would you tell the children the members of your
family interested in naming the wonders of the world
about two thousand years after Antpaer made out his list?
YOU would name the steam engine, wireless telephone
printing press, flying machine, submarine
There six What would you choose for the seventh?
Is the spinning jenny that freed from the loom
or the sewing machine that freed her from the needle?
Is it the gas engine that created the automobile?
Is it photography that carries the human eye to every
corner OF the globe and tells the truth?
Is it the marvellous moving picture simple device that
lakes advantage Of the fact that light times
che only the of an actors body but the
hight OF bullet at the cannons mouth7
Nothing could be useful an intelligent American
family and especially to children their teens than the dis
cuson Of mans accomplishments Point out to the bows and
girls that what seemed great two thousand years ago and
pied Antpaer with his famous epgra about the seven
wonders seems only childish to us now
While speak of 1.-THE ancients we should remember
tna as Bacon says we the ancents Those that come
now when the world is ancient look Antpater seven
wonders as we look at the mud pies made children at play
Inc ages OF glorious science and Of perfect justice that are
To- follow on this earth will look upon and
flying machine wireless telegraph submarine etc-as the
works Of children just learning to think.
Men that will consider this planet merely
resting point for their feet apartment which to live
no more Importance to them than your front yard to
AS your real interests all outside of your own front
gate SO the interests Of the to will be outside this
little earth. ~
Their brain and thought will deal with the universe in
which the earth is grain of sand.
What "seven wonders will they enumerate when thew
shall have learned why and how the sent on their
Journeys whence the derives its lasting power what laws
regulate the birth Of solar systems within the great nebuae
What are life thought evoluon What the of Gre
atmg universe with all its struggling and suffering? And
what is to be THE great wonder that will explain all to in
telects fully developed?