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Show WORLD'S DEBT TO THE AGES Modern Progress, Thoroughly Analyzed, Ana-lyzed, Not 8o Much of an Improvement Im-provement on the Past. Not by a great deal are all the old-fashioned old-fashioned things admirable, but by no moanB aro they all inferior and out of dato becauso they are old-faBhloned. Tho best of them we may strain all our modern resources to equal, and not do It. The boat products of old-fashioned old-fashioned training and education are still models for contemporary seminaries, semi-naries, Ah far back as wo can reach Into the history of mankind wo find great peoplo, easily tho equals, and often the superiors, of our very best In mental and moral qualities. Our good luck Is not that we aro superior to them in our human material, but that wo havo at our service an Immensely greater accumulation of knowledgo, mostly about material things. ThankB to that, we understand the laws of nnturo much bettor than our fathers did, nnd that has helped us to make wonderful machines, and put them to doing, after their fashion, what used to bo dono by fingers, brains, and brawn. Hut spiritually we got our highest Inspiration two thousand years ago, nnd have been trying over since to reach up to It; and mentally, though wc ubo better tools, wo are no better, surely, than Pythagoras or Aristotle or the author of the Book of Job and hundreds of thinkers who must have long preceded any of them. R S. Martin, In Harper's Magazine. |