Progress in Material and Spiritual Things
A COTEMPORARY remarks that George Washington, the first president of the United States, never saw a steamboat; John Adams, the second president of the United States, never saw a railroad; Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, knew nothing about the telegraph; and Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president, never dreamed of such a thing as a telephone. These facts are strikingly suggestive of the progress the world is making in material things. The instructed mind sees in them a moral and spiritual signification, as they bring distant families of men into closer relations, and help to establish "The Parliament of man, the Federation of the world."