Show PROGRESS THAT STAGGERS MIND surely this Is the age of super Al miracles iracks when the first steam cna engine dragged a single car along a tra track ck at four or five miles an hour and the clermont ermont CI chugged her labored way up lip the hudson and the first telegraph tediously ticked out the message what hatli hath god wrought men and women sensitive to these developments said we live in an age of miracles and the phrase has boon been repeated until it has lost much of its original meaning has become a mere bromide of conversation A new denomination appears to be needed for example a man hies flies from california to new york in less than twelve hours as little as a dozen years ago such a feat could have been imagined only by a professional novelist or a professional lunatic no one seriously believed that any such thin thing could be done and even more incredible was the notion that residents of opposite ends enda of the e earth arth might talk with each other yet recently dr anton lang jr georgetown university exchanged greetan greetings with th his family at aberam bergau Ger germany maDy while an undetermined million listened in also by a marvelous technique of reproduction a thousand movie theaters just now are showing in colors as rich as life itself a pageant odthe of the court of st james in 1815 the screen blosso blossoms ws into glory beyond the dreams of any genius of the past what would benvenuto Een venuto cellini or blichard chara wag wagner guer 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 dim dig into mountains and drag from hiding elements which their immediate predecessors could not foretell snatch from the grasp of death victims of accidents and alamei ailments ats which once were accepted as immutable whims of an unkind providence each hour that rims its course provides news of unexampled victory over circumstance and so it happens that a super miracle of mass reaction is achieved a psychological laissez faire on the part of the public young folk especially ally are arc so accustomed to the magic of the century that they take it for ranted granted one must be at the mid mile post of existence to realize to the full what is occurring on the earth one must be able to remember tallow candles horse cars gasoline go buggies 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 ile ed to see the age of miracles replaced by the age of super miracles that Is the greatest story in the history of the race the progress of the past five decades the grandest super miracle in human experience exchange |