WHAT PROGRESS WILL RESULT IN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1253, 16 October 1884, Page 1

WHAT PROGRESS WILL RESULT IN.

If we could only learn that there are but twenty-four hours in a day. But it is a national fault with us to try to crowd about thirty-six hours into every day. W e want to m&ko up ten columns of matter into a nine column paper. When the hen refuses to sit before she is ready, thus teaching humanity a lesson of patience and the external fitness of things, we do not yield to the hen ; we construct artificial hatchers, and hatch out twelve dozen eggs in twentyfour hours. If plants and vegetable# refuse to grow for us as rapidly as we think they should, we force them into hot beds, and make them keep step with the times. We fly past the wind and outstrip the birds with our railway trains ; we make water run up hill ; we light our streets without gas, oil or candle ; we take the sting out of lightning with platinum tips ; when we can’t fly we run ; and if we have to walk we don’t, we aimply sit still and telephone. We go upstairs in an elevator, and we call a messenger boy, a policeman, or a hack, with an electric bell. We won’t even make the physical exertion to shout “ fire we press a button or pull down a hook, and a machine gives the alarm for us. We are going to be physically lazy. It it be true, as the scientists say, that unused members and organs disappear, in so many generations the American people will be a race of men without legs.