THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901. A CENTURY'S SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 1, 3 January 1901, Page 16

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901. A CENTURY'S SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

J. 7&*, ■+ $$k - N the P a S an mytliology of ancient Rome, the God &u&>j*. Janus presided over gates and avenues. He °P ene(i the new year or the new century with Jfjfe* the key which he held in the one hand ; he jKjwflO ruled it with the rod which he wielded with the tfs* other - Scul PtolP t0I> 8 usually represented him with f fo* two faces : the one that of an old man looking back upon the past ; the other that of a youth with gaze fixed upon the future. This poetic fancy of a usually dull and sensuous mythology appropriately represents the attitude of the world at the present moment, when we have just passed one of those great mile-stonea on the road of Pime which mark the opening of a new century. We are, so to speak, leaning for a brief space upon the hitherward side of the time-post and JANua-like, turning the face of imagination to the future and that of memory to the past. With the past, however, we are on the more solid ground. • • •