“The various short papers on English types are full of refreshing and enlivening touches.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 1170w.
Russell, T. Baron. [Hundred years hence; the expectations of an optimist.] *$1.50. McClurg.
The mechanical, scientific and ethical progress which the author predicts for the next hundred years promises to our descendants a world of “almost unthinkable perfection.” No war, no coal, no washer-women; all unelevating domestic labor will be eliminated; dress, heat, travel, the air we breathe, the water, we drink, will be perfected; and man, enlightened and developed, will live in a net-work of invention so complicated that life itself will seem a very simple thing.
“Even regarded as the baseless fabric of a vision, the book has a certain fascination; but its forecasts are not without a foundation of scientific probability.”
+ – Dial. 41: 283. N. 1, ’06. 330w.
“So far from being in advance of his age in his ideas, he has not caught up with it. He has an open and unprejudiced mind and makes many interesting suggestions.”
+ – Ind. 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 300w. N. Y. Times. 11: 653. O. 5, ’06. 280w.
“Far from astonishing us by a bold flight into the regions of scientific impossibilities, which he seems to fear, he leaves us lost in amazement at the feebleness of his imagination.”