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and safe. When we look around and observe our water- 
works, docks, harbours, bridges, the laying out and improve- 
ments in our towns, the widening of streets, vastly improved 
sanitary arrangements, our cheap postal and telegraph facilities 
ocean cables, telephones, wireless telegraphy, all these things 
must strike us as holding out a great future. Then consider 
the constant additions to our vast storehouse of books and 
music. Libraries, museums, parks, open spaces, allotments, 
and numberless other advantages could be named, all tending 
to make the life of the future generation better than the past. 
We are blessed with an abundance of philanthropic institu- 
tions, our Sunday schools with their vast army of voluntary 
workers are doing a great and noble work, our hospitals with 
their up-to-date medical equipments, how can these be looked 
upon other than blessings for the future race. Large charitable 
bequests are continually being recorded which will further 
add to the charities available for those who needed them in 
days to come. Almost universal testimony could be brought 
that the parents of the children were doing their best for 
their offspring. Parliament, our local Councils, agricul- 
turalists, and even the much despised capitalists are all 
striving to improve upon our present standard of work and 
living. Our vast empire is at peace with the world, and one 
of the latest blessings is the Court of Arbitration which will 
no doubt do much to settle international disputes of the 
future. Perfection in everything is of course a long way off, 
and we still see many heights above us which we desire to 
scale. New conditions will create new wants. Our pre- 
decessors no doubt looked forward and could foresee many 
things we have to-day ; they built upon what went before 
them, and we are building upon what has gone behind us, so 
the future will have to be built upon to-day’s conditions. 
More people than ever before are uttering the sentiment, 
“ What can we do to leave the world better than we found it,” 
and the future holds out wonderful methods and a wonderful 
state of living for the future generation, based upon the 
magnificent efforts which are being put forth to-day. 
Mr. John W. Chorlton, taking the negative, stated that 
from his point of view, he took it that the subject referred 
to the children solely. We could leave such questions as 
electricity, hospitals, Workmen’s Compensation, and medical 
science alone, because no doubt at the time when the next 
generation arrives at maturity these things will be out of 
date and an entirely fresh set of ideas will be required. There 
always will be the very important question of education. 
Men in the forefront at the present day were not altogether 
