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Show THE SEVEN . . . MODERN WONDERS i i The Seven Wonders of the1 Modern World! It wero a far easier task for oven the learned men who shared in the selection to namo seven score than seven. On every hand, by night, by; day, wo walk amid a multitude ' of wonders, which are no wonders won-ders to us, but only commonplace, common-place, becauso a part of our cv- j eryday existence. Today an in-; fant's fcelilo voice finds its unerring uner-ring way along a tiny wire across rivers and over plains and mountains to tho one homo in , millions it seeks. To us no won-1 dor, and our young men and 'women cannot recall the timo before be-fore tho telephone was. They uso without a thought, an instrument instru-ment before which tho Seven Wise Men would have prostrated themsolves as a thing supernatural. superna-tural. Tho Seven Ancient Wonders wore selected by tho Crooks, and their right to tho title us es-tablishel es-tablishel bofore Christ was born. During all tho intervening years no attempt has been mado to defiintely roviso tho "Seven Won-dors." Won-dors." Generation after generation gener-ation has come and gone accepting ac-cepting tho decision ono from the other. In fact there was no opportunity for a revision. As tho years increased civilization obbed and about all the man-made man-made marvels we have' to show for thoso 2,000 years of human lifo are a few cathedrals and pictures. pic-tures. Of tho ancient wonders only ono was a practical utility-Pharos, utility-Pharos, the 400-foot lighthouse of Alexandria; ono was a hang- but built by a queen for her sen sual pleasure; two wero tombs; ono was a temple of beauty devoted de-voted to a heathen god; another, tho Colossus of Rhodes, was a freakish mass of cast metal, less than half tho hoight of our own Statue of Liberty, and not comparable com-parable in dignity; and ono was a beautiful statuo to typify certain cer-tain aesthotic ideas. Not a single ono created for tho uplifting or woll-boing of tho masses. As bruto forco, represented in vast armies, was tho measuro of power, so tho Ancients honored tho strong arm and tho mighty, inort mass. It would seom that the pont-up forces of civilization, held in, thrust back, ruthlessly cut down for 20 centuries, had finally burst forth to fill tho 19th century with wondors. And the greatest of these are neither connected con-nected oceans, mountains thrust through with tunnels, towering structures each housing the population of a city, floating paluriM. land vehiclos that out distanco tho eagle, noranyoftho" things which typify tho might of muscle. On the contrary each modern wonder is a monument to the might of mind. II. H. Windsor In tho August Popular Mechanics Magazine. |