The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-16


tina. Denmark had ordered zoo 900 uniforms, and that
Prussia was accommodating innumerabe supplies And
all the symptoms Of 1870 percsptble nov, like
quantity OF diamonds launched upon the market IN
tended only 30 Brighten holders into selling, and thus
force the calamitsos and catastrophes conse
Quent these universal conflicts. We glory in our
civastion regard tho achievements OF the past rs
the supreme victories Of the human mind the shin
ing crown OF history, and yet when we turn
to the future, from the loNy pinnacle OF our
PRIDE We see but advancing armies massed az though
In an immense battle field incendarfes that blaze aud
threaten immediate the nations; pies OF dead bodies
that impregnaie the with death the laboratory Of
life; and the survivors more unfortunate than the
dead, subjected 70 every upstart warlike avengcr
handshng extcrmnatiog sword, offer TO she names
OF their scpulchred fathers the questionable satisac
ton OF bloody vengea1co When wo see all these
things imagine that society 10 but continuation Of
natore; that within her bosom alone matter exists and
that she alone governs al forco that mechanical laws
guide and drecs and not she laws Of the mind; that
condemned 70 behold rival nations in history as
a species OF natural enemies all over tho earth, hunt
ing each Other prosecuting each other in ono great
struggle without truce, without limit, that one may
build itsclfup by the determination Of the other
building upon the reeking remains upon the scattered
bones upon the fst intcsnes even because, like the
ancient CODA OF the heather modern grandeur de-
msrds requires the bayharous holocaust Of human
sacrifice In this iuterminablc reign OF fatality and
evil II is, therefore, necessary TO turn our eyes
toward tho principles OF justice and to establish
ourselves therein as u were, In order 10
convince ourselves that anor all human reason
must hasten tho evcnts that will load to
. complete realization Of the common wellbeing
IL necessary for always have faith In the IDEAL
shat may sincerely hopcn will be fulfilled But now
In other times while Affections and torments every
whore aboand while the gallows and the axe work d.
lently the OF feudasm, human reason goes
on steadily weakening them and destroying them dis
possessing them by reality, aftor having thrust them
from the conscience. To day human
REASON CONDEMNS soRCE,
proposes tue substitution OF international arbitration
for tho procedures OF war and will sooner later end
the struggle OF man against man, ond the combat OF
nation against nation as it has ended the contest Of
house against house and CITY against city, by founding
full complete regimen Of right and Justice in per-
pctual peace We destined doubtless, TO SEQ many
The Humanitarian spirit Of tho eighteenth
century, that spirit which produced such opmist the
orists Kant and coudorce such practical and hon
orable Washington and Franklin, has been lost
amid multitude Of tort oous iucomprehensbiliiics
The rule of ideas which has given as 80 much hope,
hos succeeded the apology for force made by such do
scrters from Hesclian idcalism Dr. Srausa For the
sentiment and ideal OF progress they have substituted
tho sentiment and idea OF painful pessimism
They aver that tho advent Of democracios, that
dla,aton and expansion OF life, through many his
torica and we'll planned revolutions, 10
equivalent TO a return TO barbarism BY species Of
ma.sriaststc mysticism they have inculcafcd con-
tempt for the precious gifts Of existence In oror that
we should attempt to defend, improve perfect It.
Looking up a coar, calm night az the immense cx-
pansc OF stars whose scintillatng light awakens the
idea they shy that there in those ci or created fire.
there cannot, there ought not to exit that rrison,
that buriesqne that bitterness which cali hfe They
have chanted nothing sad terrible than these
confusing theogoniea They have thought preferable
not partake OF our Ills as II all were not compcn-
stated by the marvellous spectacle Of nature, by the
harmonious scales OF art by the vision OF truth in
science by tho self satisfaction that s derived from
tho disiDtercsicd funlmcnt Of duty In relations
with tho world And by matoralism they have arrived
at the same results by the crudest mysticism, Wiz, to
elevate conqucro and the oxecutoncr the throne
OF the knga to doze force, predicting with the sacr
fec of rights the immolaon Of our souls proms
ing us this world eternal and In the world 70
come perennial noncnttty. Thus arc VIC treated by
utopans, by dreamers, by blundcrcrs whose great
desire Is TO suppress all ideas OF principle Of justice
and the regulating OF social life BY human rights.
EVOLUTION SUCCEEDS REVOLUTION
Whom consider the broad series Of human
feel the profoundes hope FOR future progress
Science precodes reality, and precedes Il at wide dis
,ancc but later reality cbeys science. Tho
right Of estate begins by combating the right uni
vorsal and enis by obeying H. no matter how distant
It may be. The present is perpetual transition DO.
tween the future and tho past New organisms
much 10 society ms IN nature to those prc-existing
organisms which have produced them. In order 70
promote a spiritual Transformation philosophical
transformation Is necessated and may be said that
| a slate tn rt,zo rocn uvl;c
savani has said, with truo mathematical exactncss,
.whoovcr preserves to society its institutions
without having produced others and readily
rcalizahle Is like he who should take from tho
phlbous animal the organs with which he rospres in
tho water before having given him tho organs with
which no may breathe in the air" Thus the English
savant consoles himself with the fact that British
statesmen neither respond to modern science obey
purely scientific conceptions with that deep reflection
consistent with their ability and that the dsproportion
manifested between the intellectual and positive state
OF society brings rreparablc evils the country We
have then departed from the period OF revolutions
and entered upon period ofevoutons Universal
mont combined with parliamentary regimen viii not
completely cxtirpae wars, but viii undoubtedly dimn-
ish the OF these tremendous conflicts. II the
Erauco. German had been discussed in sovereign
assembly instead OF imperial chamber it Is certain
that that terrible declaration would have boon avoided
which has resulted in much misfortune II legisla
| tors and sovercgns had to compel their in
with the of others TO take all the chances
| OF war In tho field they would deliberate earn
csty before shedding the blood of their offspring
| BY those transactions oil the past and those that
behold the prosen. able to say that the
period has not passed; but also that have
| commenced the period OF labor
MPossrBLBf
Blu, amid these general reflections have omitted to
examine the numerous rumors OF in the coming
spring have any real foundation Passing over reck
less optimism do not believe in this immediate con-
nlct The gravcst peril is in the rivalry between
France AMI Germany, and this rivalry has diminished
considerably The French wisely keep TO themselves
ma daxofn themselves 10 the their