The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-03-17
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/ The following beautiful passages
we copy from the Washington Cores
| pondence of Hon. Ignatus. Donnelly,
in the st. Paul Dispatch:
"Oh! Mr.. Editor, when centuries
boil down the religions in their cruci-
BILE the residum viii be only charity.
I g Yes, divine charity is the one
thing all essential. The Frenchman,
as he writhed on the field of Water
loo, while the knife of the surgeon
almost touched his heart, muttered
between his clenched teeth, "Cut an
inch deeper and you will find the En-
peror." So we might say that when
we got through the hulk and form of
religions, through the flesh and the
ribs, we shall feel the heart of charity
pulsating with life not its own-its
rythmic motion keeping time with a
greater Heart beyond the world. @
90 Man is mastering the world. The
winds which buffeted him once now
drive his ship; the waves upon whose
margin he once recoiled, have become
the great medium of commerce; the
lightning which blinded and terrified
him has become his messenger; the
fire, at first caught from the lightning
or from the mouth of the volcano,
and esteemed so rare and precious
that priesthoods were established to
preserve it from extinction, is now
the universal agent to subdue climate
and create power. ven as.rs., ..f,
believe. the future of our race
involves the eventual complete, mas
terry and subjugation of every force of
nature and every capability of the
earth, air and water to the uses and
benefits of man.
The time will come in the worlds
history when these days, wherein the
many suffer and the few are blessed
with abundance, will be looked back
upon with wonder as cruel and bar
barous age. ~,
"There is land enough in the world,
food enough, raiment enough, to give
abundance to every human being that
dwells on the face of The earth. We
are gradually approaching the period
when these resources viii all be made
use of.
"Who doubts this fact? Is there
not land enough? Look at the un-
settled fertile wastes of America, of
Asia, of Australia, even of Africa, on
whose table lands DR.. Livingston has
discovered vast regions of beautiful
and fertile country. ti sr
"Is there food enough? Yes it
lies in all those untamed fields-feod
for thousand years. All it needs is
the hands of the men who suffer for
it to call it into the sunshine. III
" While hard-toiling working men,
in Eurepe eat meat once a year, thou
sands, nay millions, of cattle are killed
annually in South America, for their
hides and tallow; other millions of
buffalo, in our Western wastes, are
slaughtered for their robes alone
While millions of craving stomachs
go empty, millions of pounds of food
rot in the sun. AT last the beef of
Buenos Ayres is sold at two or three,
cents pound in the streets. of Lon,
don. r zga4. ,,af
The task before civilization is to
bring the resources of the world to
bear upon the masses of the people
The world literally :" owes every man
a living" and good one too, and if
he does not get it it is because man.
kind are not yet advanced far enough.
With intelligence every thing is
possible. Every man who is UNDER
fed, unenlightened OF insuficiently
clad is a protest against our civiliza-
ton. ,ts.l.fa ,.fsaR ms
God speed the time when the uni
versal religion shall be universal char
ity; when the universal law shall be
universal Justice when no human
stomach shall be pinched and no hui
man brain be unenlightened and
when glorious science, gathering her
conquered forces around her, shall bid
them seek out every element, every
| force, every hidden resource of ma
ture, ande bring them, like gathered
treasures, to the feet of man. Is this
the future that mighty man~Daniel
foresaw? Call it millennium or what
you will, it is coming; and no human
power. can stop it; for it is part of the
plan of Him who made the trilobite,
and cast aside the mammoth and the
negatherium, and set the apple tree 10
blossoming, and called man into be-
ing, and has lifted him up steadily,
until to-day he stands master of the
world"