Steam navigation became really useful. The telegraph was invented.
Gas was discovered and applied to practical uses, and electricity
was made known in its practical workings to mankind. Thus, it is
seen the world is progressing; men are becoming civilized. But
the process of civilization even now is slow. In one or two thousand
years we may hope to see a vast improvement in man's condition.
We may expect to have the employer so far civilized that he will
not try to make money for money's sake, but in order that he may
apply it to good uses, to the amelioration of his fellow-man's
condition. We may also expect the see the workingman, the employee,
so far civilized that he will know it is impossible and undesirable
for him to attempt to fix the wages paid by his employer. We may
in a thousand or more years reasonably expect that the employee
will be so far civilized and become sufficiently sensible to know
that strikes and threats and mob violence can never improve his
condition. Altruism is nonsense, craziness.

_Question_. Is Chicago as liberal, intellectually, as New York?

_Answer_. I think so. Of course you will find thousands of free,
thoughtful people in New York--people who think and want others to
do the same. So, there are thousands of respectable people who
are centuries behind the age. In other words, you will find all
kinds. I presume the same is true of Chicago. I find many liberal
people here, and some not quite so liberal.

Some of the papers here seem to be edited by real pious men. On
last Tuesday the _Times-Herald_ asked pardon of its readers for
having given a report of my lecture. That editor must be pious.
In the same paper, columns were given to the prospective prize-
fight at Carson City. All the news about the good Corbett and the
orthodox Fitzsimmons--about the training of the gentlemen who are
going to attack each others' jugulars and noses; who are expected
to break jaws, blacken eyes, and peel foreheads in a few days, to
settle the question of which can bear the most pounding. In this
great contest and in all its vulgar details, the readers of the
_Times-Herald_ are believed by the editor of that religious daily
to take great interest.

The editor did not ask the pardon of his readers for giving so much
space to the nose-smashing sport. No! He knew that would fill
their souls with delight, and, so knowing, he reached the correct
conclusion that such people would not en