What the Future May Develop 



human beings inhabit some of the sister planets and if such 

 there be, he may develop a communication with them. 



Who knows what geographic or climatic changes will 

 take place during the next million years ? It must be remem- 

 bered that four great "Ice Ages" have taken place, chang- 

 ing climate and driving all life before their irresistable force. 

 The last of these formed our Great Lakes and changed the 

 climate and geography of the Northern Hemisphere. A 

 forced change of diet or the use of soft prepared foods 

 which our civilization has devloped may lead to a toothless 

 race of men as it has done with other species of animals 

 because Evolution casts off the useless organs and its opera- 

 tions are not limited by time. 



The above suggestions may, at first thought, seem to be 

 nothing more than fanciful dreams. That is all they are. 

 But if we shall judge the future by the past, they are all 

 within the realms of possible fulfillment. Dreams are the 

 first flashes from the great cosmic intelligence that set the 

 currents of human thought in motion and cause men to dare 

 the impossible. They have been back of all of the great 

 inventions and discoveries. They were back of the telephone, 

 the phonograph, the moving picture, the airship, the radio 

 and all the others. One hundred years ago, none of these 

 had even reached the dream stage, and yet, today they are 

 proven realities helping mankind along his upward path. 

 Already, the currents of human thought have begun to move 

 in the direction of the accomplishment of greater impossi- 

 bles and when human thought becomes congealed and crys- 

 tallized, it then becomes an irresistible force to which the 

 laws of Nature yields her secrets. 



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