The Cry for Justice

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ft a Strong Bits on pinions Jfrcc 'By Walt Whitman (See pages 174, 268, 578, 726) BEAUTIFUL World of new, superber Birth, that rises to my eyes, Like a limitless golden cloud, filling the western sky.... Thou Wonder World, yet undefined, unformed--neither do I define thee; How can I pierce the unpenetrable blank of the future? I feel thy ominous greatness, evil as well as good; I watch thee, advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past; I see thy light lighting and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe; But I do not undertake to define thee--hardly to comprehend thee; I but thee name--thee prophesy--as now! lUngDom of 9?an By E. Ray Lankester (English scientist, professor in the University of London, born 1847) THE new knowledge of Cature, the newly-ascertained capacity of man for a control of Nature so thorough as to be almost unh'roited, has not as yet had an opportunity of showing what it can do. No power has called on man to arise and enter upon the possession of this kingdom--the "Kingdom of Man" foreseen by Francis Bacon and pictured by him to an admiring but incredulous age with all the fervor and picturesque detail of which he was capable. And yet at this moment the mechanical difficulties, the want of assurance and of exact knowledge, which necessarily prevented Bacon's schemes from taking practical shape, have been removed. The will to possess this vast territory is alone wanting. The weariness which is so largely expressed today in regard to human effort is greatly due to the fact that we have exhausted old sources of inspiration, and have not yet learned to believe in the new. It is time for man to take up whole-heartedly the Kingdom of Nature which it is his destiny to rule. New hope, new life will, when he does this, be infused in...