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prophetic was that (juery, in view of the stupendous revolution in 
social and industrial relations brou<,dit about since then by the use 
of electricit} ! 
When miracles are mentioned our minds instinctively revert to 
the miracles chronicled in the Bible; and yet, with the possible 
exception of the raising of the dead, is there a miracle recorded in 
the Scriptures that is more wonderful than the miracle of the tele- 
phone? It is a miracle of a very real, practical nature; a miracle 
that has revolutionized every detail of our present-day life, social, 
financial, and industrial ; a miracle that has annihilated space and 
brouf^ht the world so close together in its everyday relationships 
that we have become one small group of people, regardless of the 
hemisphere on which we live or the race to which we belong. 
Business Revolutionized by Science. The revolution in busi- 
ness methods caused by the use of electricity has been so rapid and 
so com])lete as to cause bewilderment and consternation in the minds 
of multitudes of our ])eo])le. They are fairly staggered by the 
mighty changes that have taken place, and I sincerely question 
whether they comjirehend the fundamental cause of these mighty 
changes; and this lack of comprehension, in my judgment, is 
responsible for much of the unrest that i)ermeates the world today. 
Multitudes of people engaged in everyday atlfairs are seeing the 
results, feeling the results, without understanding the causes, for 
they have not been furnished by the men who have produced them 
with sufficient information as to the causes and the results which 
these causes are bound to produce. 
The business men of the United States have been very properly 
charged with having been so engrossed in money making during the 
last quarter of a cenutry that they have given very little if any 
attention to public afifairs ; have given very little if any of their 
superb ability to public service ; and have given nearly all of their 
ability to pursuing se'fish ends, largely of a money making nature. 
Much can be said to substantiate this charge, but, in my judgment, 
a similar charge can be made against the men of science. They 
have been so engrossed in the fascinating problems on which they 
have been working that they have taken little or no time to inform 
the public as to the practical etfect that modern scientific inventions 
were bound to have on the everyday lives of our people. These 
inventions have been placed in the hands of the people of the world 
within the last third of a century, and their application to business 
