ΤΟ MY GRANDCHILDREN. THE last seventy years have been so full of progress and discovery that we old people cannot help feeling an ardent desire to know what wonders the next seventy have in store for those fortunate beings, like you, my dear children, whose privilege I trust it will be to live through them. I hope, however, that your eyes will not be so dazzled by the brilliancy of the future as to render them incapable of casting a glance on the past. It is most likely personified for you in me as the future is to me in you; and I think that the following sketches of a world that has changed so much will interest you all the more because they are dedicated to you and written by your loving old grandmother. |