Show The Passing of Impossibilities By Herbert Kaufman E ARE sated with progress We live faster in a year than WE V VV I V our forefathers did in a century Where once the cobbler spent three days on a pair of shoes we have machines to prod produce ce them in three minutes Your grandmother spent half a year crossing crossing crossing cross cross- coast half a week The ing the plains you plains you ride from coast to in first men who attempted to build flying machines were rewarded with straitjackets instead of laurel wreaths The wise men of history are rapidly becoming the fools in in the I eyes eyes of posterity The rhe time is is rapidly approaching when the makers makers mak mak- makI I ers rs of lexicons will define impossibility as a word used in in the ignorant ages to designate a difficult task Copyright 1917 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights r reserved served un |