Capitolo 29
you/he/she could be duplicated everywhere in innumerable ways and in all the walks
of the life.
The result is obvious, and it was inevitable. Entered on a new phase of
existence, the world is not as it was of days of Cristoforo Colombo, when a
the new continent solo that contained in him what we am now able was open
you consider a limited accumulation of the precious metals. It is, on the
contrary, as if, in the language of the Dr. Johnson, "the potentiality of
wealth" you/he/she had been revealed "over the dreams of the avarice"; together with
anybody or two but a dozen of continents, the existence and secrets of
what staid are suddenly naked. The applied Sciences have been the
magicians,--not Protection or the Currency.
And he/she anchors scientists you/they are continually deafening in our ears the question
if this state of business is going continue,--if the era of
trouble has reached its limit! I hold such question to be little
short of childish. That be reach his/her limits, neither it also has
approximated those limits. On the contrary one, we have entered as soon as on the
sea not marked on the geographical papers. We know that as which you/they have provoked the last thirty years
the result of the agencies to job; but as he/she anchors us you/he/she can only weakly dream
of what the next sixty years are destined for seeing provoked.
Imagination staggers to the suggestion.
That that, then you/he/she has been of this the inevitable one consequence,--the,
consequence that also the blindest would have had to foresee? It has
results in everybody that those changes of vast course have suggested in the first part
of what I have said to-day, as you respect our ideals our political,
theories, our social conditions. In the other words, the old one be end,;
what is you/he/she implicated when we say an it was new you/he/she has entered on?
To try a partial answer to the consultation doesn't implicate application to a prophetic
faculty. If we like to face the fact or not, changes of vast course
under our economic theories and the social conditions it is imminent, while involving