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Show Science Has Made This "Age of Super Miracles" peclally, (ire so accustomed to tin' magic of the century Hint lliey take It for granted. One must be at the mid-mile post of existence to realize to the full what Is occurring on the earlh; one must be able to remember tallow candles, horse cars, gasoline go-bugles and the old wax-cylinder talking machines to appreciate to the full the wonder of the present era. Perhaps it Is not too much to say that fortune has been particularly kind to those who have been privileged priv-ileged to see the age of miracles replaced re-placed by the age of super-miracles. That Is the greatest story in the history his-tory of the race! the progress of the past five decades, the grainiest super-miracle super-miracle In human experience. Exchange. When the first steam engine dragged a single car along n track at four or five miles an hour, and (be Clermont chugged her labored way up the Hudson, and the first telegraph tele-graph tediously ticked out the message, mes-sage, "Wliat bath Cod wrought!" men and women sensitive to these developments said: "We live In an age of miracles." And the phrase bas been repeated until It has, lost much of lis original meaning, lias become be-come a mere bromide of conversation. conversa-tion. A new denomination appears to be needed. For example, a man dies from California to New York In less than twelve hours as little as a dozen doz-en years ago such a feat could have been Imagined only by a professional Dovelist or a professional lunatic; no one seriously believed that any such thing could be done. And even more Incredible was the notion that residents of opposite ends of the earth might talk with each other. Yet, recently, Dr. Anton Lang, Jr., Georgetown university, exchanged greetings with his family at Oberam-mergau, Oberam-mergau, Germany, while an undetermined undeter-mined million "listened In." Also, by a marvelous technique of reproduction, a thousand movie theaters the-aters just now are showing In colors as rich as life itself a pageant of the Court of St. James In 1S15 the screen blossoms into glory beyond the dreams of any genius of the past ; what would Eenvenuto Cellini or Richard Wagner have said of such a medium of enfranchised art I 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 elements which their Immediate Immedi-ate predecessors could not foretell, snatch from the grasp of death victims vic-tims of accidents and ailments which once were accepted as immutable whims of an unkind Providence. Each hour that runs its course provides pro-vides news of unexampled victory over circumstance. And so it happens that a super-miracle super-miracle of mass reaction is achieved a psychological laissez faire on the part of the public. Young folk, es |