THE EASY LIFE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 27 June 1911, Page 3

THE EASY LIFE.

“The easier .life. As-rendered-” says Dr. Flinders Petno, “the nio;o • a.-y is decay and degrathiiioirdo I•; A _ In a hook, “The Revolution <■( ' ivdisalion” (“Harper's”), be attempts to reduce to a diagram the ninu-nii’.it >f human progress in arts, sciences, md acquisition of \\eal:o cfvn'im a vast term of veais fren. 0000 R.C. to our own ag.o. It may come as sum Mano of a chock to the modern mhid to find linetconth century mt placed on a lower pedestal than the Egyptian ait >f i|OOU Is. G.—about l 1 • date of tho. Toation of Liu, 1 wcyl l, aciordiug t». the old-fashioned chronology; and also :,o observe that our art is hcgiminig .p.movc down waul in a. cycle, of .delay. ,! =•••• ■ 1 • d ■ ■ Dr. Pcti ie stiysithai the advance cf ■ iv.il isa turn is due. to iff initween man and mam: or strife 1 of nmn n ith nature. oho enormous awnm.illation of capital and'wealth, wludniii n o of the features of our age. is tip itself, according, t>, lon-, a cause-of k-.cay,, because it diminishes the need •or incessant and daily . oM-rte,n To forms of govc.i no out l>b assigns title influence and .linpihtance D - aocr.u-y, mnvw-i,, is. tho cruse and -.ymptom oi dcclnn- ■ ‘ Ihe inainaty vitho.ut capitil m-cossaiily cat up the ■apital of tho miuurtr, and the on dilation steuli'-v (.ecays until 1 lie ineiica - pipq.'.iti >n is swept away to rake room h r a (d.tcr pi-cp-L'. ’