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expect that the final environment, at the last, ideal stage of prog- 

 ress, will have economized all possible technical elements, the 

 whole crust of the earth. 



With reference again to the superficial, wheat conjuncture, the 

 crisis of 1883-84 began with a widening conjuncture of wheat 

 land to which India and the West were not yet added, but were 

 candidates for incorporation. After the crisis, the West was 

 found to be a permanent addition, while India has remained in 

 a rather tentative position. Subsequently, and up to the crisis 

 of 1890-93, it was Russia and Argentina and Dakota that sought 

 admission, and the test of the crisis decided that they were all 

 to come in. Subsequently, experiments have been made with 

 Oklahoma, the Canadian Northwest, Siberia, and other localities. 

 The exact importance and permanency of these additions to the 

 physical, materialistic environment are not yet settled. 



In a less superficial, physical sense, the new environment con- 

 tains all that congeries of apparatus which industrial experiment 

 has approved and a crisis has not eliminated, e. g., acetylene gas,' 

 bicycles, chloroform, dynamite, steam dredges, electrotypes, fire 

 engines, fountain pens, galvanic batteries, harvester-reapers, knit- 

 ting machines, kinetoscope, liquid air, matches, macadamized 

 roads, wire nails, phonograph, planing machine, pneumatic tires, 

 the propeller, Roentgen rays, sleeping cars, Bessemer steel, steel 

 pens, sewing machines, Suez canal, telephone, telegraph, type- 

 writers, vulcanized rubber. 



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