WORLD IN FUTURE
BISHOP’S BRIGHT FORECAST. LONDON, October 16. “If the accumulated human knowledge of the next 10,000 years burst suddenly upon us we should be dazed, exhilarated and enthralled,” declared the Bishop of Manchester (Dr Barnes). ‘“lf other worlds conveyed to us the knowledge won by minds fax transcending ours, we should be transformed.’ Man’s present irrational instinct? suggested that he was merely- entering adolescence. ProbatW for tens of thousands of years he would progress •intermittently, but evthi the lower levels in the future would'be immensely iin advance of anything that we are abl© to picture now. Within 1,000,000 years races as far .above ourselves as we are . above the (Java ape-man- should emerge, capable of an immeasurably more profound understanding of the inner spiritual character of the universe. “I believe in a cosmos, which, like our own, contains thousands of mil"lions of univeises, each with tens of thousands of millions of stars,” continued the Bishop.
“There are beings as far in advance of ourselves as we surpass the primitive fishes.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1932, Page 7
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