BY JOHN CAMERON, M.L.A. Vv 
one man would be able to turn out as many as fifty pairs of 
boots a day. he would have called for the nearest sherift to 
have the informant located either in goal, or in a lunatic 
asylum. 
I might multiply ilustrations of this sort ad »auseam, but 
T feel constrained to mention the tremendous lengthening of 
time, that is, of course, of human existence, implied in our 
achievements through scientific development in travelling from 
place to place. Many here present can remember the day 
when a voyage to the old country was looked upon as a very 
extensive inroad on the span of existence. Now it is a mere 
excursion. When Puck said he would place a girdle round the 
earth in forty minutes, the expression was considered to be a 
mere fanciful flight of imagination. Yet if an ordinary busi- 
ness house to-day were not able to communicate with any part 
of the world and get a reply in somewhere about the time 
mentioned. there would be serious deputations to the Post- 
master-General. Even in ordinary civic and domestic rela- 
tions this same thing manifests itself. We'must needs fly on 
the wings of the wind in electric trams, in rapid running sub- 
urban irains, we cannot wait for a pot of beef tea to be boiled, 
we have a herd of bullocks stored in our pantry in small pots : 
indeed, when we come to think of it, the only marvel is that 
our watches and clocks have not informed the sun, to use an 
expression of vulgarism. “that he is too slow to get out the 
road of his own shadow.” Philosophically, these deveiop- 
ments are merely manifestations of the subjugation of natural 
forces, consequent on man’s restless activity to overcome the 
most occult secrets of nature. Te the extent above hinted, 
man, by the aid of science, has subjugated those forces and 
whilst individual researchers have emblazoned their names on 
the scroll of fame by their contributions to the general fund, 
the human race as a whole has been so much benefitted. 
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, all honour to societies such 
as that which I now have the honour of addressing. To these 
pioneers in the great revolution which is bloodless, superb, 
and everlasting in its beneficial efiects upon humanity as a 
whole, from the highest to the lowest in the scale of existence. 
Already { have outlined some of the more important 
achievements which science has made in regard to space, per- 
haps the most important of later developments in regard to the 
