Show THE TIIE TOLERANCE OF TEE THE AGE AM one of the great boasts ot of the nineteenth century is its tolerance we are prone to look back will with a tari thrill 11 of horror at the cruelties of the past and then turn um to the gladsome light of civilizations day and thank god that now men are free but with ith all proper deference to the pride of the Tim timesia esit may well bo be asked whether we have superior toleration or only superior enlightenment ton to a certain extent the tile result of both may bo be die the same but in all matters of human thought yet undecided by ex per lence present enlightenment fails and wo we see toleration put to its severe test it requires no toleration tod today to d day ay iy to acknowledge kno ledge that the earth amov moves that fact is universally admitted because of the general enlightenment m which has come to mankind bo so it is with 4 ith the thousand and one great principles of political religious and scientific truth now accept accepts al I by the civilized worl I 1 I 1 the tile spread pre id of enlightenment lias has superseded pers eded the necessity for toleration iu these matters and because c men today to day declare freely the truths for me utterance of which 4 they were once tortured and burned we feel vain of the age and cry that we have reached the millennium of thoughts enfranchisement chi bat but such a cond conclusion is thus reached without a test of liberal sentiment nor can we vre completely verify verily this tills sentiment by any proposition of sc scientific advancement alvan a ir cement however astonishing toni shing it may seem for the moment them the world orld lias has become accustomed to be astounded founded daily by practical scientific discoveries and has ceased to scoff to the populace all things have now become possible in physics if wo we wish to measure the tolerance of the age let us present some e great idea of social or political change some declared though not yet proved improvement upon old systems of liu hu man life not merely physical but also moral or intellectual the public clamor of protest will ill be sufficient to cause the tile inquiry in thoughtful minds are we really any more tolerant than were mere our forefathers of the ideas of philosophers which do not show some immediate and tangible addition to our physical comforts the tile very fact that men are forcel forc edby aby rapid succession of scientific triumphs to respect from the onset allot tho the grosser discoveries alleged by in ventora tends to make the w orld more unready to admit tile less tan tangible ible ibia reforms proposed by students of social political or religious progress this is the way the world compensates itself for accepting with reckless trust lie tile declared discoveries of projectors in natural philosophy it rejects with re rec klesa elless obstinacy tile propositions which depend fur for their demonstration not apon sonoe some tangible physical test but upon acceptance by human minds and continued ope operation tation through human action during the term required for proof every ago age deprecate deprecates the intolerance of the preceding age while all the time engaged in its own petty per ft evecuti cution on of reformers reform era and the tolerance of this ago age is only the tile tolerance for ideas which have survived the agony of the past and not toleration of the ideas of better social political or religious life presented by today to days day thinkers it is true that persecution does not as a rule take the same cruel shape today to day which it took in former times men wert are not certain to la be boiled in oil tor for heresy but rid ridicule scoff ings and legal pursuit and condemnation they can scarcely hope to escape and moine times too often even ia in this nineteenth century they pay the martyr martyrs pric for their inspirations spi rations ix cf of his hi ean francisco Fran cinco employment agency lie says situations filled in the last list two years and all satisfactorily froin from which it I 1 ia very clear that denniss patrons are tery much more industrious and ben sensible than dennis himself was wont to THE scientific american declares in favoron favor of the wearing of corsets cb it avers that corsets corbels induce costal breathing which prevents consumption i on and it gives encouragement to the d dear ear men who lace to improve their shape wo we trust that hiles reads the scientific Amet american ican tat SALT LAKE LAZE herida gleefully remarks that the capital is beginning to be aa as busy as ogden |