"'Tis Sixty Years Since" - Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913

Charles Francis Adams

Capitolo 28

covering but few more than the life of a generation,--did what is
known here to you as the applied Sciences covers a series difficulty to
specialize. How factors in development, are sure to say that those
three awful agencies--Vapor, Electricity the Chemistry--has, so to
you speak, he/she worked all of their results well visible among the life of the
born generation since we celebrated the centennial of the independence. The
demonstrations what time they result and apparent to all it is the natural consequence
of the use of these modern instruments, becomes in our case every day
you equip that work in the hands of the most clever, adaptable, clever
and energetic of the communities, developing a continent of virgin of
undreamed-of wealth. Under such conditions, the advance naturally has,
is not only general and continuous, but one of never to increase
quickness. Then Protection and the Currency become flies on the fast
rotating wheel!

But has thing resulted otherwise?--A nervousness, social, economic,
political. Not the appeasement but a lamentation and an ancient history of
offend! We feel above him to us in to whine continuous that known as which is the
cost increased to live, and it feels his/her pressure in the tallest standard
to live. That that was considered wealth from our ancestors is not really to-day
competence. What was now enough hardly for luxury for our infancy
provisionings what is known as the comforts of the life. Takes, for example, the
motor,--the automobile. I speak inside confinements, I think, when I say there me
it is her/it a lot of fold more to-day of motors racing on the roads the public road,
and the byways of America that were wagons thirty-five one-equine
years ago. Six hundred, I am said, you/he/she will be found inside the immediate one
district of Columbia;  and, since I have been here me I have seen in
Your roads only a man on horse-back! These figures and that
affirmation says the history. Only, back every Carolinian rode some years
to city, and the motor was unknown. An only illustrative example, this
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