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Show Science Has Made This "Age of Super Miracles" pecially, are so accustomed to the magic of the century that they take it for granted. One must be at the mid-mile post of existence to realize to the full what is occurring on the' earth ; one must be able to remember tallow candles, horse cars, gasoline go-buggies and the old wax-cylinder talking machines to appreciate to the full the wonder of the present era. Perhaps it is not too much to say that fortune has been particularly kind to those who have been priv ileged to see the age of miracles replaced re-placed by the age of super-miracles. That is the greatest story in the history his-tory of the race the progress of the past five decades, the grandest super-miracle super-miracle in human experience. Exchange. When the first steam engine dragged a single car along a track at four or five miles an hour, and the Clermont chugged her labored way up the Hudson, and the first telegraph tele-graph tediously ticked out the message, mes-sage, "What hath God wrought!" men and women sensitive to these developments said: "We live in an age of miracles." And the phrase has been repeated until It has lost much of its original meaning, has become be-come a mere bromide of conversa tlon. A new denomination appears to be needed. For example, a iuan flies from California to New York In less than twelve hours as little as a doz en years ago such a feat could have been Imagined only by a professional novelist or a professional lunatic ; no one seriously believed that any such thing could be done. And even more Incredible was the notion that residents of opposite ends of the eartli might talk with each other. Yet, recently, Dr. Anton Lang, Jr., Georgetown university, exchanged greetings with his family at Oberain-mergau, Oberain-mergau, Germany, while an undetermined undeter-mined million "listened in.' Also, by a marvelous technique of reproduction, a thousand movie theaters the-aters just now are showing in colors as rich as life itself a pageant of the Court of St. James in 1815 the screen blossoms into glory beyond the dreams of any genius of the past; what would Benvenuto Cellini or Richard Wagner have said of such a medium of enfranchised art ! Scientists meanwhile climb the stratosphere and plumb the deepest depths of the restless sea, look out into the boundless heavens and watch storms passing over planets of which the ancients never guessed, dig into mountains and drag from hiding elements which their immediate immedi-ate predecessors could not foretell, snatch from the grasp of death victims vic-tims of accidents and ailments which once were accepted as immutable whims of an unkind Providence. Each hour that runs its course pro-Tides pro-Tides news of unexampled victory over circumstance. And so it happens that a super-miracle super-miracle of mass reaction is achieved a psychological laissez faire on the part of the public. Young folk, es- |