p. 7 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1904

Note and Comment

THE possibility of the overthrow of modern civilization by the forces of lawlessness now so visible everywhere, was assumed by President Charles F. Thwing, of Western Reserve University, in a recent address before the graduating class of Adelbert College, at Cleveland, Ohio. He is quoted as saying, after a reference to the existing antagonism between capital and labor:—

I sometimes fear that forces now active may wreak themselves on the community and again overthrow civilization, as it was overthrown in Southern Europe fifteen hundred years ago. Neither this nation nor any other of the advancing peoples of the world has any patent right to a constant progress or to a lasting existence.