ry of our race. When the account
of the railway and shipping accidents has been completed, it will furnish
grim reading, although there is evidence to show that in the vast
majority of cases the drivers of trains and engineers of steamers
succeeded in shutting off their motive power before succumbing to the
poison. But the material damage, enormous as it is both in life and in
property, is not the consideration which will be uppermost in our minds
to-day. All this may in time be forgotten. But what will not be
forgotten, and what will and should continue to obsess our imaginations,
is this revelation of the possibilities of the universe, this destruction
of our ignorant self-complacency, and this demonstration of how narrow is
the path of our material existence and what abysses may lie upon either
side of it. Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions
to-day. May they be the foundations upon which a more earnest and
reverent race may build a more worthy temple."

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