THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. 



death while the representatives of the Great Powers 

 coldly looked on and prided themselves on their una- 

 nimity in all making the same useless protests will 

 surely be referred to by the historian of the future, as 

 the most detestable combination of hypocrisy and in- 

 humanity that the world has yet produced, and as the 

 crowning proof of the utter rottenness of the boasted 

 civilization of the nineteenth century. 



When the brightness of future ages shall have 

 dimmed the glamour of our material progress, the judg- 

 ment of history will surely be that the ethical standard 

 of our rulers was a deplorably low one, and that we were 

 unworthy to possess the great and beneficent powers 

 that science had placed in our hands. 



But although this century has given us so many 

 examples of failure, it has also given us hope for 

 the future. True humanity, the determination that the 

 crying social evils of our time shall not continue; the 

 certainty that they can be abolished; an unwavering 

 faith in human nature, have never been so strong, so 

 vigorous, so rapidly growing as they are to-day. The 

 movement toward socialism during the last ten years, in 

 all the chief countries of Europe as well as in America, 

 is the proof of this. This movement pervades the ris- 

 ing generation, as much in the higher and best educated 

 section of the middle class as in the ranks of the 

 workers. 



The people are being educated to understand the real 

 causes of the social evils that now injure all classes alike, 

 and render many of the advances of science curses in- 

 stead of blessings. An equal rate of such educational 

 progress for another quarter of a century will give them 



