Show 0 I J j When Radicals Are Right r T- T r does oes not Dot necessarily meau I S the waving of a red flag from froni the top g of a soap box an and denunciation enunciation of all existing forms f of government Ra Radicalism in science has hns been the very verJ backbone of its growth Without the ra radicals of the past science uld never have achieved achieve its remarkable The first man maii who wIt said the world t ws ts s round in conflict with the accepted lJ or bry that it was flat was placed in prison sj he IC first man who declared the earth re- re about the sun instead of the sun Ground round the earth was tortured until he re re- re- re canted ant d Medical men used to believe blood was stationary f in the thc bo body y like the juice of a a grapefruit When Harvey came forth with his declaration that the blood circulated the doctors of his time tried to run him out of h the medical profession as a quack and faker l R Radical and revolutionary theories in science M Mi i always ways caused a cry of horror herror to go forth fri rhe first telegraph wires ere were cut the first Dewing machine smashed to pieces and the first man to sell anthracite coal in Philadel Philadel- fp S was run out of the tho state of Pennsylvania g s an imposter The first railway tracks laid I ere rere torn up L An Au example of the opposition to progress is shown in iii the following letter written by byDie Die r w school board of Lancaster Ohio in in 1832 answer to a request to use the schoolhouse schoolhouseS a as- as asa S a meeting place to promote a railroad in inthe inthe hie the vicinity S Y You are at liberty to use the school to hold lold meeting for all proper purposes But Butr r railroads oads and telegraphs are impossible and rai rank k infidelity If God had intended his inc intelligent in in- c creatures should travel at the frightful frightful fright fright- ful speed of sixteen miles an hour by steam I lie IEe e would clearly have foretold this in the Holy Prophets It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell The The world is cha changing ging The radical of toU toay tomay to- to U ay y may the the tho genius emus of tomorrow |