350 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



for the century which lies before us. In physical and indus- 

 trial development, in inventive genius and in mechanical and 

 scientific discovery, it has surpassed all previous epochs. !• 

 deed, sometimes we have made so much progress along purely 

 material lines that we have lost sight of the higher and nobler 

 side of things. Life cannot be wholly mechanical or material. 

 Often our inventions and improvements have defeated their 

 very ends. In the book entitled "Is Mankind Advancing," the 

 author says : 



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

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

 foundries, the sewing machines, the mowing machines, the 

 reapers and harvesters, the swift trains, the electric trolleys, 

 the subways 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 are 

 seons of it ; time enough to double men's lives. Time enough 

 to give every human being an abundance of leisure. An indus- 

 trial revolution, the miracles of modern machinery, millions of 

 brains are directed upon the problem ; all having for their one 

 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 be- 

 gan. What becomes of all the time thus saved? Where does 

 it go? Except in the rural districts (where there is no ma- 

 chinery for saving time, but where alone there is any to be 

 found) every one is pressed for time. 



"The leisure which we gain by time-saving machinery seems 

 almost to be tainted. Like the gambler's winnings, it is seldom 

 put to any good use, but is soon expended in a hundred hurried 

 follies. 



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

 close of a busy life, one day reflected upon his past and dis- 

 covered to his consternation that he had spent his existence in 

 growing corn to feed hogs, in order to buy more land on which 

 to grow more corn to raise more hogs on, and so on. 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 to get more things and to get there more 

 quickly, and over again, ad infinitum." 



