The Course of Events.

Every word has been the last word since the first word took the air, and the last of the last words is as far distant as the utterance of an unformed thought of an unborn dumb-waiter.

Modernity is a synthetic synonym for Progress, and Progress is a Purveyor of Pace. Pace is a manifestation of Modernity and an emissary of Emancipation. Pace is the goggle-eyed god of the modern mile-masticator. It is accepted by him as a matter of course and by the pedestrian as a matter of curse. Time-slaving and time-saving are the primary industries of the infuriated futurists and internal combustioneers. But all things being sequel, and time being only the ticking in man's mental mattress, he is no wealthier by saving it than he would be by waiving it.

No doubt speed is merely man's gesture of revolt against the ambulatory limita- page 50 tions of his perambulatory pebble-pounders, which are about as adequate to cope with the perpetual commotion of his daily delirium as the frost-bitten flippers of a senile seal. Consequently man has made the world a place fit for horrors in his endeavour to override Nature's under-estimate of his understanding.