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1912 Watch Tower - A2Z.org

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"Before this century is closed, the last king shall havelost his throne, the last battleship shall be scrapped, thelast army shall have junked its guns. East and West shallR5107 : page 304meet in a thousand common causes and the Five Racesjoin hands in brotherhood."Perfected wireless telephony and telephotography,mile-a-second trains and airships will condense the seasand continents into ponds and back lots."Africa will become a week-end resort for the NewYorker, and the Canadian farmer will press a button, lifthis receiver and exchange crop gossip with his son inSiberia."Pain will be banished. Surgery will have accomplishedthe relief of insanity and blindness. Cancer,tuberculosis, paralysis, will be as easily cured as sprainsand lumbago."There will be no waste in food nor in land. The airwill yield its wealth of nitrates to the condensers andevery arable acre will luxuriate with vegetation."The stored heat of the sun will furnish power andwarmth for all humanity. Plagues and pests willdisappear."Eugenics will regulate society; men and women willmate by definite laws; efficient <strong>org</strong>anization will checkeconomic spendthriftry and eradicate poverty; engineeringwill solve the problems of competent housing, ventilationand sunlight; the standardization of health and of welfarewill extirpate prostitution and crime."A dream? Not a bit of it!"A far-fetched vision? You are wrong!"No imagination can pierce the horizons that cloak thetomorrow from our sight."The farthest-flung optimism can only estimate afragment of man's coming glories. How can you sneer!"Turn back and view the fifty years behind you. Whatprophet in your father's youth would have dared proclaimthe many magics of today?"Strikes, revolts and wars are but chips that fly beneaththe chisel of progress."There will be many wars, mobs will rage, battles willwage, tyranny will clutch with strangling fingers, bigotrywill plot, avarice will scheme--but to what will theseavail?"====================R1040 : page 304"FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT""Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternallife, whereunto thou art also called."--1 Tim. 6:12.

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