, 1876-04-15


tralia are wives at sight of one fourth of all
the men. Here IS promiseulty, the promis'
Guilty Of Chssdom. under a sin le restriction.
Mrs. wooiLu,l 10 right in picturing social
state 10 which the psssons-atfeetons she
c4llcthen-shsll bc exceedingly tree-riSht,
If she changes the terse. Her ideal is the
first term, not tie last, in the evolution Of
societies.
another critical period is the transition
from the tribe 10 the stale. No AsIatic
people ever made the transition complete.
The Jew talked about the gentle world,
while he was the very gentle of gentiles'
lie n yer outgrew tho gems dr trim 1t
took all the force OF Grpek intellect to break
up the gems and all the subtletirs of Roman
Inv to hold what the Greek had wen.
We do not say that the stages we have
sk~ched are separated from each other by
sharp lines. There are no sharp lines either
in nature or history. What we cay now lie
that to attain civilization and make all the
, transitons complete, race must pass
through each of these stages What is the
trouble with All SIM Ah Sin is like II
school.boy who has passed too abruptly
from the infant school into the high school.
All Sin passed too suddenly from the state
Of hunter into that Of farmer. lie did
not remain long enough shepherd. Whit
can you do for All SIM Nothing. Ar
rested development is development arrested
forever. There is q man with hair lip.
What can yuu do for him? Nothing. The
time is when We are all hairlipped But
the time comes when nature at the miracle
of creation in the womb weayes up the
cleft But If the appointed time passes,
and IL in the play of her shuttle thread ia
dropped or broken. she cannot 60 back on
Der path and pick up the dropped thread in
the life, garment she is weaving No more
can she go back and pick up a dropped
thread in the warp and woof of civilization.
wba. can you do tor Spotted, Tail. Moth
ing. We take the American Iusian to rep
resent another phase Of arrested deyelop-
ment. What can you do in. the savagei
From the shores Of the Mediterranean
civilized man has spread over all Europe
He has pushed his way over both Americas
lie has penetrated the dismal wastes of Tas
mania and Australia His colonies are a
fringe OF light on the dark borders Of AZ
rica Wherever he has gone he has carried
with him the whole serviceable world. To
the savage of every tribe he has taken the
animal already tanned, the metal already
nlned, the weed already raised int0 plant
Why then should not tile savage threw off
the anir.al mind aud bound right mp into
civilizationa Simply because that is neither
the law nor the gospel, You ca not make
a man ct your child hy taking on yourself
the discipline shrough which he should pass,
A MAN MOST WORK OUT MIe own SALVATION
and civilizations aswsll. For itsel' the peO.
ple must tams the animal npst nniine the
metal, must reclaim the weed For the saw
age you con DO nothing, His opportunity
10 pas,. He 10 Shronic. Our indian policy
is the most s,upenilous government Fally the
SUD shincs upqn, The best thing you can
do for savage is to let him alone. The
worst thing you can do for him is to make
him pensionetl hocly. For the savage you
can do nothing good. We read that time
comes in the life OF Imam when bis spiritual
forces harden, when he cannot repent hut
must live on forever under the sentence he
that is unjust let him be unjust still, and he
that ia flthy let him be filthy still.' 81,
too, rigidity may overtake rave. Its sum
mer may pass and autumn may lind IT,
fruitless, saplcss, doomed to live on under
the sentence, he that is Modoc let him be
a Modoc still, he that is an Ethiopian let
him he An Ethiopian still. and he llst is an
Australian, an Australian still.'
But to Disseminated races science hringsa a
gospel full Of hope and cheer. Man took this
world when ft only for wild weeds anil wild
beasts. Simoous and typhcons, thorns and
thistles. claws and fangs, that was the world
No mercy, no pity, but war of winds and
waves, and hungry war Of mouthsl--thas
was the world in times prebamaD. Through
this very war sf mea.ks there emerged being
destined 70 recreate the earth. He entered
the lat of war, the level antagonist Of parIi
and panther. Warning against the animal he
Harmed to subdue it. Tanning the animal he
was tanning the animal in himself. Tilling
the soil, he was tilin another soil in himself.
Gaining dominion over nature, he was gain,
ing dominica over the passions of his own
nature, ill. in 0ur branch Of the race he was
disenthralled, and from a self became crea'
tor. He curbed natures tecundity IN the jun
gle. lie cured her s,erility in the desert
He dug metal frnm the mine, and now he
ribs the globe with steel and speeds over Hill
and plain. He digs railways through noun
tains; he digs shipways between oceans, and
having abolished the Ianhwhcre il wasa bin
drnace to-day by tunnel under the British
channel be proposes io abolish the sen where
it is an Inconvenience. By uninterrupted
toll in the labratOry hcprFparCs TO abolish at
las, the farm and tho slaugbter.house. lie
creates directly the oil Of mustard and says
r. naaw