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Show NO LAST FRONTIER "Our last frontier is gone," sigh the historians who read history of America as the pushing forward of the frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific. That offered to ambition and enterprise a field of unlimited opportunity. And now that we have achieved the conquest of the continent, what are. we to do? Are we to lament with Alexander that there are no more worlds to conquer? The westward march of our frontier meant new lands to make fruitful, to plant with wheat and' corn or to drive out the buffalo and replace them with domestic do-mestic cattle. The historians are right that frontier is no more. Yet there are other frontiers which are beyond their calculations. These frontiers are not geographical. They are not measured in miles; they are the frontiers of knowledge and of invention. The frontiers of the new sciences which year after year' are being advanced from the realm of pure (theory and high speculation into actualities. Our old frontier had a definite limit. That limit was reached, but the frontiers of the mind of man have no limits and no measure. Our great-grandfathers saw steam revolutionize the world. We in our day have seen the marvels of the automobile auto-mobile and the airplane. Have our people come to their Pacific when we can say surely that progress is stopped? Not at all. Our genius for invention means new frontiers for us to push forward, great, new, and as yet undreamed of worlds to conquer. We are not a static people. We never have been content to sit down and be satisfied that all has been done that man can do. The great thing in our history has been our inability to stay put. We have always been pushing forward for-ward to new and larger fields of endeavor. There is and can be for Americans no last frontier. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer) |