Fifty Years Hence: or What May Be in 1943

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Locksley Hall. That portion of the public which honors me by perusing what I have been fortunate enough to learn concerning the future of the inhabitants of this planet, half a century from this Christmas of 1892, will naturally, ais my name is unknown to either fame or science, wonder on what grounds I presume on so bold an undertaking; perhaps what manner of ma...