AS WE TURN TONIGHT TO THE SUBJECT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF A NEW AGE,’ I think it is quite evident to all observers that we are standing in the hour of the great motion. Upon the face of the earth, things are moving at such greater speed than ever before, that our knowledge in technology in the course of that last few decades has increased. We stand on vistas of human understanding that dwarf the concepts of the Universe as we knew it yesterday, into almost insignificant and small beginnings. For at this hour, we can study every phase of our natural sciences. In the last decade astronomers have added ten times the measurement to the Universe as they had before. They are thinking in terms of limitless space with limitless planets, suns, moons, and stars. The realm of the physicist has discovered greater power than he has wielded before in his conscious earth history.
We have joined our experimentation in all realms of chemistry and physics, the taking of units of things apart. And we have discovered the secrets of the Universe that the last fifty years have brought to fruition, until today you can say the men of your race have a system of thinking which gives them a pattern of the smallest units of the solar system, the atom, its molecular masses and the construction of substance. And you have watched in the pattern in the last twenty years, the taking apart of the atom, the tremendous energy which it has released, the great explosive power in their hands.
You have watched the development of fields and patterns of combustion. You have moved into an age where men can create rockets with such thrust, they can place themselves out into space. You have watched the movement in your own time of objects, satellites, arching the earth. Man made asteroids with the ability to bring them back into orbit. All these things have happened in the span of the last two decades.
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