an's interior nature. Sky-scrapers are indicative of the heights to
which we are aspiring; to which we are climbing; air-ships only tell
us that man in his interior nature--in his reality--is not a creeping,
crawling Thing, chained to the earth. He may, if he will, soar into
ethereal realms. He has wings, and if he so desires, he may use them.

Wireless telegraphy would be a much less consequential discovery, did
it not foreshadow the coming time when mind will speak to mind
regardless of desert wastes and imponderable mountains that seemingly
intervene. Wireless messages are the result of vibrations set in
motion by means of a dynamo and received by an instrument attuned to a
corresponding rate of motion. But no dynamo ever invented has the
power that is centered in the dynamic will of a human being. Brute
strength is paralyzed into inactivity by the comparatively puny
strength of a man. The fierceness of the lion, the tremendous force of
the elephant, give way before the potent power of Man's desire--an
interior quality.

Do skyscrapers, or air ships, or wireless telegraph systems make us
happier? If they do, is it not because of their ethical rather than
their so-called practical value? Is it not because they prove to man
his power to use the plastic material of the planet and control it to
do his bidding? Rapid transit adds to convenience; but above and
beyond all the so-called practical valuation which can be put upon
modern inventions and accomplishment is the message which these
mechanical marvels present to the mind. The message that man is not a
machine; that he is not a creature but a creator; that he is not a
miserable worm of the dust, but a winged god.

Greater than all the other benefits bestowed by modern mechanical
marvels is the knowledge of each other which has resulted from
intercommunication between nation and nation. The great breeder of
discord and the waste of hatred is the idea of segregation. The man of
the cave and the club feared his next door neighbor, because he did
not know him, and the animal-man fears that which he does not know;
his imagination pictures the unknown one as something monstrous and
dangerous. Intimacy will teach us that people of a distant country are
like ourselves, even though they may dress differently; even though
they may wear their hair an inch longer or shorter; may eat a diet of
nuts instead of meat; may pray standing up rather than kneeling down.
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