Show The Cussedness of Man B Y Herbert I WE E are amazing paradoxes We command deserts to burst into blossom and turn Niagara into a lamp lighter lighter bisect bisect hemispheres hemispheres hemispheres hemis hemis- and outride the eagle imagine eagle imagine photography talk around the earth pour music into molds construct Woolworth buildings building's and telescopes with million-mile million eyes eyes devise devise books produce penny newspapers rainbow r aniline dyes smallpox virus and dynamite dynamite- create motor cars conceive turbine liners evolve pneumatic hammot's hammers ham ham- mers mot's travel under water divert rivers weave silk and at the very apogee of civilization must still resort to war to adjudicate differences differences differences differ differ- and disputes We seem able to control about everything except ourselves Copyright 1917 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved |