It has already
been proven that one can telegraph to a flying train from the overhead
wires. Ether is a far better medium of transmission than iron. A wire
will now carry eight messages each way, at the same time, without
interference. What will not the more facile ether do?
Such are some of the first vague suggestions of a realm of power and
knowledge not yet explored. They are mere auroral hints of a new dawn.
The full day is yet to shine.
Like timid children, we have peered into the schoolhouse--afraid of the
unknown master. If we will but enter we shall find that the Master is
our Father, and that he has fitted up this house, out of his own
infinite wisdom, skill, and love, that we may be like him in wisdom and
power as well as in love.
OUR ENJOYMENT OF NATURE'S FORCES
We are a fighting race; not because we enjoy fights, but we enjoy the
exercise of force. In early times when we knew of no forces to handle
but our own, and no object to exercise them on but our fellow-men,
there were feuds, tyrannies, wars, and general desolation. In the
Thirty Years' War the population of Germany was starved and murdered
down from sixteen millions to less than five millions.
But since we have found field, room, and ample verge for the play of
our forces in material realms, and have acquired mastery of the superb
forces of nature, we have come to an era of peace.
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