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MORE MIRACLES AHEAD 



So MUCH FOR the miracles ahead in the world which is just 

 around the corner. What of the world which may not be 

 just around the corner, but over the next range of mountains? 



These miracles farther ahead may sound fantastic to us 

 now. But the most youthful of us can remember when many 

 of the actualities of today were the fantastic "what if's" of 

 yesterday. 



Dr. Charles M. A. Stine of Du Pont reminds us that "already 

 our world of 1940, in which we took such pardonable if mis- 

 taken pride, is so distant in the past that it has become an 

 antiquity, as seen through scientific eyes." 



The impossibilities of the days immediately before Pearl 

 Harbor have become today's realities. In this war we have 

 done a great many things that we couldn't do. So the last two 

 years have brought tremendous changes. And the first two 

 years after the war may bring even more fantastic changes. 



Those things may be beyond our comprehension now; they 

 may be beyond the reach of our scientists at the moment. But 

 Browning, in his "Andrea del Sarto," voiced the most charac- 

 teristic slogan of the research scientist: 



... a man's reach should exceed his grasp, 

 Or what's a heaven for? 



The day may come when we can use the atomic energy in 

 a lump of coal to run a factory for a week. Our electric 

 power today is gained by tearing loose some of the more- 



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