| Show THE TH WORLDS PROGRESS david ir H recently wrote that a million horsepower horse power could not produce the effects that a single flash of lightning hits has been known to accomplish lie believes that we have as yot yet hardly begun to utilize the forces of nature find and that la in no lie doubt true there are powers in the air powers in tho the water powers in that subtle thing thine called electricity which itch the imagination of man as yet cannot conceive the old world was fitted for B r long voyage it was given forests to serve for maws mans fuel and build building ang material and when they began to grow crow scarce it was waa found that beneath them was a fuel more condensed rude iron ore was placed in tile the hills and by boorn onis 3 means perhaps through the effects of the flash men inch took up the idea that that metal could lo be 10 made serviceable they began first by malting makins implements Implement a of war from it then they extended its use bao until it entered into the very life of man and commerce so with ten thousand other things until finally as man became advanced lie ho began to receive glimpses of other powers that might be utilized then the windmill wind mill was vies invented then the ills at steam engine which man fondly believed was tho the very acme of human investigation and invention and now the threat comes that the steam engine Is to be put aside that another dower infinitely more subtle and more forceful Is 11 to usurp the work which the steam engine has been doing and cheapen more and more the services which machinery perform for men in the same way may in the line of chemistry now new forces and the adaptation of old forces to new work Is going coins on it mingles with the very food we eat cat and the investigations have hardly begun tho the ultimate result must be that fig as the coarse and rough freight of tile the world la Is more and more discharged man will bring brine to 0 o Ms life uses higher and more sublime agents until in the last laet days of the world when man shall have full dominion over the earth and all its elements the earthly state will bo be so perfect that the transition from this world to the world where there Is nothing but spirit will nill be made almost vilt without hout surprise and without lL hout jar |
