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Show HUMANITY NOT RETROGRADING The saying of President Pnlton of Princeton that the Twentieth Centurj divvns upoi a race Hint Is mediocre falls altogether In oilglnallty, and la not correct aa a fact There haa nevet been an aye of which wc have an) record that was not com-puud com-puud uiuavoiablv vv.fi age lhat had gone before And . . piotiaM the onl) jieriod of in ins existence that renlli showed a pronounced and general gen-eral deterioration were at the Oreek de indent e and the Dark ages so callod, In Hurope Theie Is no reason at all to compare our present times or men unfavorably with the times md men of any age vvhaleve Whether ln scholarship, utt. Invention, materltl triumphs of the Industrial nnd tom-meiclal tom-meiclal life, In Intrepldlt) of explorn. tlon. In ehurltles, gilt for education, In religion oi rose u eh, theie has nevei been a time In Ihe hlstorv of the world that can approach the piesent We know more of the hlstoi) of the human hu-man race in it beginning In Its de. velopinent and In It tendencies than our anccstois did, and make belter and more honest use of It than they would have done had lhe had It, art Is more advanced, and lass mbjeet to crudl-tlea crudl-tlea und uurbarlams In Invention no age Is comparable to our own. whether we consider the great advancements of applied st ionce and daring conception or the small tonvonlunce of life, we are lodged better fed better, clothed better and live longer than men evei did before, our Ideas of in irallt) and decency in conduct aie moie elevated than were evei eforo prevalent among mankind, our general standard of living liv-ing and of thought aio higher than any generation of men over before at-tulned at-tulned our public Ideal are moru lofty officials act less on sordid and personal motive than ever btfore, though there aie o caslonal ,amcntabl failure now, whereas there was a much gi eater proportion pro-portion of lai ses formerly than vva experience ex-perience , there Is a more general dealr to benefit mankind that need help, and this desire is more extensively and effectively put Into effect thin vr bofoie Ho thut we maintain we are on the up grade and not on tha ele-ollne, ele-ollne, vvc progress In all desirable growth and do not deteriorate. The more civilised humane und moral taues of the eutth have gained not onl) reli-tlvely reli-tlvely but absolutely uvir Ihe depraved and unenllghtenod raceu, wheieaa at tho e loo of the Hlghtccnth Century thu enlightened population of Hi world compilsctl and swayed but u small portion of the world aggiegnte pnpu la'lon that enllghtenel population comprise now fully one-lhltd of the total population of the em Hi ami con-Hola con-Hola two-thirds of th whole, liefure Uil mitiij !. in nij docades old It v II , II I i 1 1 iv all of It nn I i I n onillti ii of Hie in lui i ' j h un c xt nl th t the) , way w II believe tin millennium haj 'me Ft, nai what you will the rule of the sovereign races of the earth I mild Just and eoodly In every feature compared with the cruel, bloody and rapacious rule of horror that conimon-1) conimon-1) prevails tmons the dark race In view of what I well known, Indisputable Indisputa-ble and oasy to be seen of nil, this Is no period to ret up walli of soirnw either for lest rlorlM or for decadence In men, for men capable of so traiis-formlng traiis-formlng the world as civilized men arc now dolnrc, are not mediocre cither In grarp of Intellect or In any of the hlch qualities Hint make humanity the chief of all created things the pride of the world, nnd the heritor of eternal glor) |