384 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



ploymeut and support and upon the rery nature of our national life. 

 While it will be a long time before rearrangements in the case of the most 

 important of the metals, iron, will be manifest, and while they will assert 

 themselves gradually, we are quite certain to face new conditions in cop- 

 per, lead and zinc at an earlier date. In the end, however^ we can per- 

 haps justifiably forecast a future in which agriculture will figure more 

 and more prominently and in which the moral, intellectual and spiritual 

 life of the nation will readjust itself accordingly. Great and concen- 

 trated wealth is likely to be less in evidence, materialistic influences less 

 pronounced, and from the vantage ground afforded by the greatej com- 

 forts and opportunities of modern life as compared with that of a century 

 or a half century past, we may in the distant future look forward to an 

 evolution upon somewhat different lines. Broadly viewed, the national 

 life will probably be increasingly sympathetic with art and with ideals. 



