There is nothing absolutely stable in the universe. From the
ultimate eon to the largest world in space everything is moving.
If we believe in progress we shall say that everything is moving
on. If anything should actually stop it would be instantly
destroyed. If a man could go to the top of a high tower, or a
mountain, and there could come to absolute rest, the atmosphere
of our earth, light as it seems, but traveling about nineteen
miles in a second, would by its friction probably reduce him in
a second to a patch of flame and dissipate him as a fiery gas in
every direction.
So, if in our life progress we should try to stop and live in a dead
past, or turn back to old conditions, the world’s rush of progress
would leave us behind, or its frictions would wear our spirits out.
(2120)
=Moving Pictures in Churches=--See CHURCHES AND THE CROWD.
=Much in Little=--See MINIATURE WORK; ECONOMY.
=Much in Little Space=--See USELESS LABOR.
=Multiformity of Life=--See INDIVIDUALITY.