Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1916-10-27 | Page 10 | World's Debt to the Ages

WORLDS DEBT TO THE AGES md modern progress Thi thoroughly roughly analyzed not so much of an im pro provement on an tho the past not by a great deal are all tho the old fashioned things admirable but by no means are they 01 interior and out of date because they are old fashioned the beat of them we amny strain RI all our modern resources to equal and not ant do it the best beat products of old cushioned training and edt education catlon are till models for contemporary semi af tries As far back us as wo we can reach into the history of mankind we anve find great rent people easily the equals and aad often aften the superiors of our very best beat in and moral qualities our good luck to Is not that wo we are superior to them in our human material but that we have at our service an immensely greater accumulation of knowledge mostly about material things thanks to that we understand the laws of nature much better than our fathers did and that has helped us to make wonderful machines and put them to dong doing after their fashion what used sod to be done by fingers brains and brawn but spiritually we got our highest inspiration two thou thousand saud years ago and have been trying ever since to reach up to it and mentally though ye we use better tools we are no better i surely than pythagoras or aristotle or the author of tho the hook book of job and ana hundreds of thinkers who must have long preceded any of them E 9 8 Nf martin artin tu ID harpers magazino magazine