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Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
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was shot. In scores of millions of cases his wife was burned
alive with his corpse. We have outgrown that. Nowadays the
great man who dies must leave behind him an accumulation of
millions, which means that thousands of men have worked to give
him what he did not need. Before these leases shall have expired
that form of financial barbarism will have ceased to exist.

It is reasonable to hope that the coming thousand years will have
seen the end of industrial feudalism, which has had its birth in
our day, and which will run its course as did the military
feudalism of the Middle Ages.

What a marvellous picture the world will present one thousand
years from now!

The earth will be adequately populated.

Science will have conquered disease almost entirely. Each woman
will be the mother of two children. She will not bring five or
six into the world in order that two or three may live.

Competition will be replaced by emulation. The intelligent
servant of government will work as loyally and enthusiastically
for his government and for the people as the boy at college now
works for his college football team.

The human mind will have wandered on many leagues in its search
for a satisfying religion, getting always nearer to a clear
conception of the grandeur of the universe, and further away from
the superstition necessary to the moral control of a brutal
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