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our very inventions and improvements have defeated their own 

 ends. An author, commenting on to-day, says : 



"Think of the time saved by the telephone, the telegraph, the 

 typewriter, the cotton and woollen and silk mills, the iron foun- 

 dries, the sewing machines, the mowing machines, the reapers 

 and harvesters, the swift trains, the electric trolleys, the sub- 

 ways and automobiles, the escalators and elevators ! What a 

 vast volume of time has been saved ! Time that used to be 

 wasted, now saved for man, and put away where moth doth 

 not corrupt, nor thieves break in and steal ! There is time 

 enough saved to give every human being an abundance of leis- 

 ure ! An industrial revolution, the miracles of modern ma- 

 chinery, millions of brains are directed upon the problem — all 

 having their sole object, to save time ! 



"And what is the result? The result is that men have less 

 time nowadays than they ever have had since the world began. 

 What becomes of all the time thus saved — where does it go? 

 Except in the country districts (where there is no machinery 

 for saving time) there is none to be found, for every one is 

 pressed for time." 



And often the time which we thus imagine to be saved is not 

 put to any good use. It is merely expended to hurry on again. 



"A Western farmer, who enjoyed a calm moment at the close 

 of a busy life, one day reflected on his past and discovered to 

 his consternation that he had spent his existence in growing 

 corn to feed hogs, and sold hogs to buy more land to grow more 

 corn to raise more hogs, and so on, in an endless chain. Thus 

 we invent machinery for the purpose of saving time, in order 

 to produce more things and to get there more quickly, in order 

 to save more time, so as to get more things and to get there 

 more quickly, and over again ad infinitum." 



Is this real progress? Is it real education? Do these man- 

 ners make men ? True, it is a piling up of more material things ; 

 making huge mathematical results. But in the end does the 

 individual man get any more real value out of life than his 

 fathers did? Otherwise these manners do not make man. 

 Only so much of our material results as contribute to the build- 

 ing up of a finer man, a better country and a more enlightened 

 civilization can be said to be any real education, after all. 



You young gentlemen who are about to go forth into the 

 world, equipped with a degree and a diploma, must not imagine 



