The late Professor Dolbear, of Tuft’s College, summed up the progress
of the nineteenth century as follows:
The nineteenth century received from its predecessor the horse;
we bequeath the locomotive, the bicycle, and the automotor.
We received the scythe; we bequeathed the mowing-machine. We
received the painter’s brush; we bequeathed lithography, the
camera, and color photography. We received twenty-three chemical
elements; we bequeathed eighty. We received the sailing ship;
we bequeathed the magnificent steamships which are the glory
of Belfast and of Ireland. We received the beacon signal-fire;
we bequeathed the telephone and wireless telegraphy. Best of
all, we received unalleviable pain, and we bequeathed aseptics,
chloroform, ether, and cocaine. We received an average duration
of life for thirty years; we bequeathed forty years. (Text.)
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=Progress of Indians=--See INDIANS, AMERICAN.
=Progress Resisted=--See DROUGHT, RESPONSIBILITY FOR.