THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 8

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

A lecturo was delivered by Mr. H. B Scott Bennett in the Opera Honso last t( evening before a good audience. The ' lecturer's subject was "Tho Twentieth j Century—its Heritago and its Message." * He said that much had boon expected ' of the century, which had now been fairly entered upon,, and many great prophecies had been made concerning it, and its probable triumphs. . Tlio twentieth century had inherited much from the nineteenth, which had ol'tea a been described as "the wonderful ii century"; but wonderful as it had been they would not be too optimistic if ~ tlicy looked for greater achievements in !] tho present century in ever}' realm of v life. He detailed some of tlio great discoveries of natural science which had characterised the last 100 years, laying 1< special stress on man's wonderful dis- ?' covery of himself—the disoovery that 1' ho was a natural growth of the organic ?, ivorld. Then there were tho wonders of embryology and astronomy. Tha promise of the twentieth ceutury was olio 2' of great conquest, not only in the realms of natural scienco, but. much more in that of mental soicnco, of psychology. He looked forward to a ol great exploration of that almost totally t< unknown continent, the mind. They know that there was not a difi'erenco iii kind between the minds of mail and \\ the other animals, but only a difloronco U of degree. But in addition to tho more 'exploration of tho mechanical part of tho mind, lie felt sure that they would 0 . mako great discoveries in tho psychic T field. Before tho century was completed S] they would find that the mind of mail was nothing like has effusion, and 'that ill man was n power far transcending P i nny power in tho uuivnrnn of which bo c] iit crosoat knows any thing. «j,