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The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century

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By Frances Power Cobbe
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The text describes a fictional telegraphic invention that transmits entire newspapers from future decades and presents edited extracts from a vast, science-dominated daily. These fragments depict a society where technical terminology and scientific education supplant traditional literary and artistic knowledge, newspapers are enormous and decimally organized, and commonplace life is shaped by new appliances and modes of publication. Satirical commentary exposes misunderstandings of past works, shifts in orthography and pedagogy, and both optimism about technological triumphs and concern for cultural loss.

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Title: The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century

Author: Frances Power Cobbe

Release date: October 31, 2020 [eBook #63581]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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THE AGE OF SCIENCE.
A NEWSPAPER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

BY
MERLIN NOSTRADAMUS.
“Forerun thy time, thy peers, and let
Thy feet, milleniums hence, be set
In midst of knowledge dreamed not yet:
       ·       ·       ·       ·       ·
Thou hast not gained a real height,
Nor art thou nearer to the light.”
Two Voices.
LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER,
Warwick House, Paternoster Row.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO.,
172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.