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WHAT WILL 999 YEARS MEAN TO THE HUMAN RACE
The street railroad company in the Borough of Brooklyn has just executed some leases to endure 999 years. Leases of property have also been made for the same period, though, of course, a lease of 999 years will be about as binding 999 years from now as would a lease of the great pyramid executed the day after it was finished, if such a lease should be presented at present to the Egyptian Government.
These preposterous leases are interesting because they bring vividly before the human mind the certainty of wonderful and splendid changes in human affairs.
The street railroad leases are especially fascinating to the imaginative mind.
They deal with present conditions and will seem inconceivably primitive hundreds of years before the leases will have ended.
These leases deal with miserable little electric cars crawling slowly over the face of the earth, at either end an underpaid, overworked man, and in the middle a crowd of poor, dissatisfied, ill-housed human beings.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine years from now the human race will not by any means have accomplished its destiny. It will still be struggling on toward the goal of real civilization.
But it will have grown far beyond the savage condition of life that marks the execution of these long leases.