Show The Era of Pro or Progress gress DY BY MAURICE MAURiCi l Our conception of or the tIme universe universo la Is chunking ln It Jt has haR been greatly and most moat ln Jn and all It Is tending to tn modified mora rapidly d Without t t our ac cc- i Counting for Jt it each Ch of tho nl numerous r discoveries of oC clonce whether af at- footing history anthropology y leo gong tM geology physic ch n or nv tho Uto ro rout t- t r P chunK our d o and adds add ionic sonic cs essential thing thin to 10 an ati which I wo we do not yet d KV h h. h h hut which Cw wo we noo teeming o Jot tiM UH occupying thin th whole mid and which we wo re fool feel l. l by a presentiment to tD tobe k be UK lIp 8 arc aro lIko Il Illuminations Il- Il I lamInations wo we see BOO at evening rt fetes lC 9 A frontal cupola colonnade and nor por I lice tico all Incoherent appear abruptly In tho tIm sky Wo We do o not know what they mean lo to what the thoy tho belong clong They y Th y hang absurdly In tho to motionless etli- etli ethor or or they y are arc inconsistent dreams In lit Inthe Inthe the still sUH But Bul suddenly a 1 little tine lint of light appears across the thc blun and hi lii the to twInkling of an alt eye oyo connects the time cupola with the thc columns thin portico with the tho frontal tho lImo lit steps p with the thc ground and the Ute unexpected I edifIce as 39 thou though h flinging asido a mask malk of or darkness stands stOrmed affirmed and explicit In the night It Is I. this iii little line of or light this thib deciding undulation this flash o of ot general gen goti- oral eral and amid complimentary that Is still sUlI lacking In the tho night of or our Intel Intel- Intel Intel-I But wo we fool feol that It exists Ii that I ii 11 is t. 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