Show science has made this 0 age of super miracles when the first steam engine drugged dragged a 1 single car along a track at four or five miles an hour and the clermont chugged her labored way up the he kudsi in and the first telegraph tediously ticked out the message what hath god wrought men and women sensitive to those these developments said we live in an age of miracles and the phrase has been repeated until it has bas lost much of its original meaning has become a mere inere bromide of conversation A new denomination appears to be needed for example it a man lies flies from froia california to new yolk in less than twelve hours as little as a dozen years ago such a tent eat could have been imagined only by a professional novelist or it a professional lunatic no one seriously bellei believed ed that any such thing could lie be done and even more incredible was the notion that tant residents of opposite ends of the earth might talk with each other yet recently dr anton lang jr georgetown university cit exchanged changed greetings with his family at bergau germany while an undetermined million listened in also by a marvelous marv clous technique of reproduction a thousand movie theaters just now are showing in colors as rich as life itself a pageant of the court of st james in 1815 the screen blossoms into glory beyond the dreams of any genius of the past what would mould convenuto Cen Beri venuto cellini bellint or richard luchard wagner have said of such a medium of enfranchised art scientists meanwhile climb the stratosphere and plumb the deepest depths of the restless sea look out into the boundless heavens and watch storms passing over planets of which the ancients never guessed dig into mountains and drag from hiding biding elements which their immediate predecessors could not foretell snatch from the grasp of death victims of accidents and ailments which once were accepted as immutable whims of an unkind providence each hour that runs rung its course provides news of unexampled victory over circumstance and so it happens that a super miracle of mass reaction Is achieved a 2 psychological laissez faire on the part of the public young youna folk es cs specially ally are arc so accustomed to the magic of the century ceri tury that they fake tak it for granted ernnt ed one must be fit at the me mid mile post of existence to realize to the full what la Is occurring on the earth one must be able to remember re gembee tallow candles horse cars gasoline go buggies and the old was war cylinder talking machines to appreciate to the full the wonder of the present era cra perhaps it is not too much to say that fortune has been particularly kind to those who have been an eriv T alleged to see the age of miracles replaced by the age of super miracles that Is the greatest story in the history ot of the race the progress of the past five deen decades leg the grandest super miracle in human experience BK change |