Keeping Up With the Times. 363 



By keeping up with the times, I do not wish to advocate a too 

 ready acceptance of new and improved experiments, fads, novel- 

 ties, and the like. Until new things are proved a wise conser- 

 vatism is safer, if we do not cease to watch for and welcome 

 those who are to be the true leaders by force of intellectual 

 superiority. Eternal vigilance is the price of progress as well 

 as of success. The coming century will belong to the progressive 

 man, and we may define him as the one whose ideas keep step 

 with advanced thought and advanced methods, and whose work 

 is done on scientific principles. In his character rests the destiny 

 of America in her struggle for supremacy among the nations of 

 the earth. 



