ABSTRACT
The earliest dawn of what is now known as 'The Era of Development' began about the period of the first French Revolution; in the latter part of the eighteenth century, that is. It is after that date that we first begin to notice a departure from the old systems of life. But it is not until we enter the Steam Period, some thirty years later, that any actual advance can be truly said to have taken place. We then come in view of a spectacle which the whole course of previous history has left us unprepared for; we have to review an immense activity in practical progress, conducted onward with such indomitable energy as to remove mankind far beyond the position formerly attained to in social and material ethics.
