| Show science has made this age of super miracles when the first steam engine dragged a single car along a track at four or five miles an hour and the clermont chugged her labored way up the hudson and the first telegraph tediously ticked out bilut the message what hath halli god wrought 1 men and women sensitive to these developments said we live in an age of miracles and the phrase has been repeated until it has lost much of its original meaning has become a mere bromide of conversation A new dew denomination appears to be needed for example tx ft ample 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 thing could be done and even more incredible was the notion that residents of opposite ends of the earth might marlit talk with each other yet recently dr anton lang jr georgetown university exchanged greetings with his family at aberam bergau germany while an undetermined million listened in also by a marvelous marve loua technique of reproduction a thousand movie tho aters just now are showing in colors as rich as life itself a pageant of the court of st james in 1813 1815 the screen blossoms into glory beyond the dreams of any genius of the past what would benvenuto Een venuto cellini bellint or richard wagner have said of such a medium of enfranchised artl 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 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 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 lais sess dalre on the th part of the public young folk es specially pec lally ally are so accustomed to the magic of 0 the century that they taip it for granted one must be at the mid mile post of existence to realize to the full what Is occurring anthe earth one must be able to remember tallow candles horse cars gasoline go buggies and the old wax cylinder talking talk ing machines to appreciate to t the full the wonder of the present era em perhaps it Is not too much to soy say that fortune has been particularly kind to those who have been privileged to see sec 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 ive alve decades the grandest super miracle in human experience belr exchange |
