SCIENCE AND PROGRESS 



that bore it through the days of Athens and Al- 

 exandria has become an army. The Age of Dark- 

 ness the days when cannibals of holy mien had 

 power hideously to torture, fiendishly to burn some 

 of the noblest intellects that ever existed will 

 never return. 



Modern progress, planted firmly upon machinery, 

 upon the steam-engine, the steam-ship, the dynamo, 

 the telegraph, the printing-press, and all manner 

 of mechanical contrivances, will suffer no serious 

 check. These priceless inventions, while adding in- 

 finitely to the variety and interest of life and les- 

 sening the hours of human toil, have bred a larger 

 humanity and higher aims. Bringing a new in- 

 dustrial order, they have served to banish the dis- 

 tinctions of class, to make labor noble, to break 

 down the barriers between nations, to extinguish 

 race hatreds, to abolish creeds, to bring together, in 

 conscious solidarity, all the peoples of all lands. 



These inventions, these discoveries, are the off- 

 spring of the scientific spirit; they form to-day a 

 bulwark for its defence. To add to their number, 

 or to the number of their applications, is the highest 

 good towards which any man may strive. Shall we 

 soon forget the glowing pages of Buckle, wherein 

 this truth found such impassioned expression : 



' ' The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil ; 

 the actions of good men only temporary good; and event- 



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