Show EVERYDAY MIRACLES the younger generation accepts as commonplace things which those who can remember the time when there were no telephones no electric lie lights gits mo co phonographs ino no automobiles no motion pictures no airplanes no radio so no submarines still regard as somewhat miraculous when they stop to think about them fifty years azo ago when anyone suggested the possibility of any of these things thines the universal answer was it cant be done A hundred years ago if anyone had been rash enough to predict any of them society would have locked him a madhouse for its own protection two hun hundred died years ago they hanged men and women who were merely suspected of dome doing thin thines s which are matters of everyday experience now A hundred years before that the church was excommunicating 1 find and sometimes executing men for darina x to sul suggest razest that such things were possible suppose for example that someone had reported to the spanish inquisition or to the witch finders of salem that a man in a chair in new york had bad in the space off of f arty five minutes first talked with a man in london then sent a message th through routh the air to a point near the south pole fole from which the message was repeated to another man zan who wasat that moment alv living L uz like a bird a hundred miles away and a couple of miles up inythe air that the man in the sky had replied to io the message and the man in new york had received the reply all in three quarters of an hour witchcraft sorcery black magic the pious authorities of our earlier day would have seen the handiwork of the devil in such a manifestation as that which happened on january when captain called up london landon on behalf of his friend admiral byrd to inquire what assistance the british whaling fleet give in breaking a way through the ice floes to let the antarctic Ant artic explores explorers relief ship get e et through mth then passed the information on to the admiral yet the news report of this occurrence passed almost unnoticed we have got out of the habit of attributing such thino things to either divine assistance or the machinations of the devil we boast of them as achievements of the human mind but the greatest men of science today affirm their belief that the human mind derives its almost illimitable power from some source which all of the experiments have not disclosed we are performing new miracles so fast that it seems as if there must soon be an end to human progress fience says no to that mankind has hardly bem begun its upward flight in the conquest of matter time and space in the laboratories new discoveries about the properties of matter far beyond a any ny that have yet vet been applied to human needs await the engineers who will translate them into machines and devices which win will enable us to asterid even higher toward the stars of our ultimate destiny |