Progress of whom?
Progress of what?
For this miserable century hasn't invented anything great.
"It has constructed nothing and destroyed everything.

At the present hour it glorifies itself in this electricity which it thinks it discovered.

But electricity was known and used in remotest antiquity, and if the ancients could not explain its nature nor even its essence, the moderns are just as incapable of identifying that force which conveys the spark and carries the voice--acutely nasalized--along the wire.

This century thinks it discovered the terrible science of hypnotism, which the priests and Brahmins in Egypt and India knew and practised to the utmost.

No, the only thing this century has invented is the sophistication of products.