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Show NOT MUCH CHANGE Each generation of men from time irntnemorial has produced its pessimists and cynics, who have viewed with alarm the deplorable deplor-able tendencies of their contemporaries. According to these gloomy individuals the downward trend has always been in evidence, with the skids to peridition well greased. As a matter of fact, there has been little change in human nature since the dawn of civilization. At any time in the world's history there has been ample grounds for pessimism on the part of those ho prefer to look upon the dark side. A writer in the Boston Chronicle in the year 1800 pictured conditions closely resembling re-sembling those of the present day, from the viewpoint of the alarmist. al-armist. In an article "Prices Current," he wrote: "Morals Failing rapidly. "Modesty (female) Quite out of fashion. "National Honor None on the market. "Public Taxes In great abundance. "Religion No price offered. But there was nothing original in the lugbrious reflections of this writer of 132 years ago. The same things, in substance, were said centuries before, are being said today and will probably be said for centuries to cocme. o |