sometimes it seems that the more we know and the more we learn the less remarkable we considered our learning and our kbowledge to be . when other people can do something that we ourselves cannot o we think that those people must be very wonderful indeed we think that they
must be pf much more worth than we ourselves are yet as soon as we can do that same thing we think nothing of it and begin to look round for something new to learn or to do .
it even seems that we act in this same way in our thoughts about the new goods and the new machine that are so often and so readily out before us in these days it is perhaps difficult to continue to find each new thing so very remarkable when new and better things follow one another at such a great rate we still find ourselves greatly interested however when something quite mew xomes along the first plans to fly over water likes a very poor thing if we seee it now but it certainly caused more talks and gineral interst than the largest and most modern plane causes today let it have four engins or eight engines ot as many as the engineers wish planes are mo longer new and they ate hardly even news the public expects its engineers its engineers and its men of science to bring out newer and larger and better planes for and to fly off to the out does the public pay taxes if not for such things one might ask ?
The first men made objects to free itself from the earth pill amd to fly off to the outer distances may be wirth several lines in the in the newspaper .the second such object may ne much bigger and it may leave the earth much more quickly but because it is mit the fis=rst it cannot hope to get the interest of the public in the way .
in these days we have the most wonderful machines to do for as addition division and other sums . a thousend sums in a second is nothing to such a machine .quickly and still more quickly and still more quickly the figures tly but the public hardly cares it is probable that there was much mote interest three hundred years ago in the first adding machine ever made