Show Quoted I By Hartford Curtis i Copyright right 1923 Nest t York Evening Eve Eve- Evening ning World Press Publishing Co J Copyright 1923 New ew York Tork E Evening World World orld Tress Publishing Company Campan True greatness consists solely in seeing everything past present and afar in terms of or Here and Now or or in the tho power of G O. O Stanley Hall Taking this quotation in part as his text James Harvey Robinson late professor of history at Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia university in his recent book The Mind find in the Making has ghen given given gh en us a of the history of civilization of the world in terms of ot Here and Now which makes us look extremely young young- and little lIe He assumes that a single generation genera genera- I tion of or men has in fifty years ears managed managed managed man man- manI I aged to accumulate all aU that now passes for tor civilization civilization the tho further assumption being that tho the world is five hundred thousand years old I Each of the fifty years therefore would conform with ten thousand years of human progress I In Iii this forty- forty nine of or the fifty years would be oc occupied occupied occupied oc- oc In cave dwelling and in learning how to sow and reap six months of tho the fiftieth year car in learnIng learning learning learn learn- ing how to write in a crude manner Three months more would have been occupied in learning how to write In some language besides hieroglyph hieroglyph- lea ics Christianity would be but two months old the tho printing press a fortnight the steam engine a week railroading and two or three days only yesterday would electricity have been understood I and aircraft the submarine and radio would have been known a a. few hours ago This is a vivid of our boasted civilization Only the last few months would we have learned how 1 to t live 1 Have we yet learned I |