dashed it to pieces against the rocks of justice and
freedom. The swell left by its passage has not
yet subsided, and yet we see all about us the pre
cursors of a second wave which will so far surpass
the first in might and grandeur that “its very size
will make it gentle.” The first was the wave of
freedom. The second will be the wave of equali
ty. Everywhere the signs are multiplying.
The massing of enormous fortunes in the hands
of the few has awakened the common people with
a shock. Our present system is utterly unable to
prevent this monopolization, or to suggest a remedy.
Something new must be had, and from mill and
workshop, counter and desk comes the cry for
something better. Of course at present, they at
tempt to bring about the reforms by common
methods, the ballot and so forth, but it cannot
and will not be done by these methods. A tem
porary relief may be secured but not till a radic
ally different system comes into vogue can any re
lief be permanent. The Nationalist, the socialist,
even, the anarchist recognize this. But the anar
chist has become rabid, he has gone to the other
extreme and would abolish all system, everything
and reduce civilization to chaos. It rests with
socialism or that form of socialism, Nationalism to
solve the problem and nobly will she solve it. As
it grows it will gather momentum and force and
sweep everything before it. Predjudice and love
of power are its only real eneihies—Christianity is
its friend. Ministers of the Gospel who a few
years ago would not have dared to attack our per
fect system from the pulpit, now take every op
portunity to put in a word for Nationalism. No,
nationalism is not dead. It is living and endow
ed with a vitality that will outlast everything but
itself and the Christianity of which it is merely the
practical application.
There’s naught new neath the sen, the sago has truly told
And to me. this universe was formed from ono of old.
Hut when the swift heat waves a million suns have thrown
Out through tho ages long, into the far unknown,
Shall gather back und melt tho cooling spheres once more,
And caoli begins tyuow its life course as of yoro,
THE FREE LANCE.
Then what will be the earth, this world wo dwell upon 7
A sand grain in that sea of Are, her beauty gone;
And nono may live to say or sign remain to tell
The beings, strangely formed, who on those new worlds
Of how in space this earth or others like her rolled,
Their lives will be like those, the nameless worlds of old
Within whose rugged breasts reposed the rooks we tread,
And o’er whose stoneless gravo is written, “Unknown
Dead."
(Synopsis of Paper by Prof. Osmond in Friday
Club, April 22, ’92.)
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word proceeding from the mouth of God,’ 1
was quoted as a point from which to depart. .. It
sets forth briefly and forcibly the two great classes
of the world’s wants, spiritual and material. With
the former, this paper is not concerned : the Di
vine Providence, through prophets and lawgivers,
through the Son of man and His church, through
generals and statesmen, takes thought that they
shall not fail to be supplied.
The material wants of the world again fall into
two great classes, food and “power,” or in scien
tific term, energy. The problem of how great
can be the transformation of the crude materials
of nature into the finer substances serving for hu
man food, belongs to scientific agriculture aided
by chemistry. The discovery and development of
sources of power, energy, for doing the work of
the world according to the needs of the ages, is in
the province of the physicist aided by the me
chanician.
From about 1825 to 1850, Faraday was engaged
in remarkable researches, with great skill and
success. His Electrical Researches formed the
basis of Maxwell’s great. treatise on Electricity
and Magnetism. And as Maxwell went on put
ting the experimental results of Faraday into
mathematical language and drawing new deduc
tions from them by his powerful analysis, the
identity of electromagnetic phenomena and those
of light was revealed by the correspondence of the
THE SOLAR RADIATION.