National Republican., 1878-07-05
lis intelligence diacrYgrcatly, and differing,

this intelligence difrcrfgrcatly, and differing,
conflict
Tho consciousness of tho selfish group Is
manifested chiefly In desire and effort to ben
| eft self The consciousness Of the intellectual
group Is displayed In search after knowledge
Tho consciousness Of the moral group Is seen
In aspirations after tho good, the true, and tho
beautiful. The first give US all our wars MUIR
ders tyrannies, robberics, and crimes Of what
over sort, rs we'll rs ail our physical pleasures.
The second oil our literature, art, aud science.
The third all oar rcli Jon, philosophy, justice,
| liberty, and fraternity.
The relative power Of these groups IN any
given ease Is determined by their relative size.
This being true, we have only to know that
| the selfish group has ever been, and still Is,
| the largest, In the average man to account
nationally for the facts Of history and obscr-
vation that so disgrace our race The fact
that political power has been sought almost
solely for the benefit Of the persons seeking Il.
and used TO rob and opprcss the many, in tho
interest Of tho fow Z; tho fact that the dis
coveries Of scicnce the improvements Of art,
and tho inventions in mechanics arc monopo-
| Used by tue strong and selfish few to so great
an extent that instead Of blessing thoy arc
cursing the niasses Of the people, A Mr.. JOS
lin, Of Rhode Island, In lecture before tho
workngmen Of Washington, recently, said
labor.saving machinery Is supplanting tho
workingman and starving him. In this he
| but stated a potent fact; but the remedy ho
suggests Is . law suppressing inventions, aud
remanding society back to the dark ages, II
tho slow and tOilsomo processes still in vogue
In China.
| Were II the obvious purpose of God that man
| should remain forever an ignorant clown and
| toilina serf this remedy would be legitimate;
| but man being commanded TO subdue tho Garth
aud rule over 1t, and being endowed with tho
God.liko power of thought by which the achicy-
ment of the absolute autocracy Of this world
| Is possible, Mr. JOslins proposition Ii unworthy
| Of a nj onent's consideration.
"'Tis tho mind that makes the man." The
| strOng-limbed, muscular, but ignorant barba-
| riah of primitive times was but a dim prophecy
Of true manhood. He was a slave TO super
stitious fears and physical necessities. lilo
| covered before the forces Of nature and toiled
as galley slave for u meagre aud mean sub
sistcnco. The element Of manhood inherent
| within him rcbcllcd against fate so painful
and pcbcian, aud cudgclled the brain for
plans by which to secure better living at less
cost of labor. This discomfort and taxing Of
| the brain was continued, aud under the &C.
| tivity thus induced tho brain has steadily in
creased IN size and power, aud is still increas-
ing. The result Is marvellous, both as to mag
| nituds and bcnilcence. A single brain, once
| limited to the superintendence of the opera
tions OF one pair of hands, may now control
machinery representing u thousand pair OF
nADus, ana TINS maCnluefy 10 run " sNeo"
and wastes not one ounce OF muscular force.
The unwritten prophesy Is about to be full
filed. Man Is rapidly emerging from his sp-
| premiership to the parent Of invention, ncces-
sity, into the realm Of independence Of
thought and action. Tho forces aud appe-
titcs that have so long enslaved him arc to DO
the instruments Of his will, and ministers Of
his pleasure.
There Is a current and popular legend to tho
purport that it was Gods original purpose to
keep man In ignorance, and support him in
idlencss, which scheme was spoiled by the per-
lversity Of woman, as manifested In tasting for
hidden Joys, and seeking unlawful knowledge.
Then God placed man under the curse OF toll,
saying to him I'm the sweat OF thy face shalt
thou cat bread" The legend Is true to those
who able TO interpret II, rs arc all tho sacred
myths and legends that have come down to US
from the venerable past There was no doubt
an era when the primitive man leaned like an
infant upon the breast Of his mother nature,
drawing his sole sustenance from the spontano-
Gus fruits oil her bosom.
| From this dream of infancy he at length
awoko to the necessities Of clothing and other
luxuries which nature had not supplied. To
supply these wants involved labor and the sca
of toll was inaugurated. From this hard school
Of bitter experience, the race Is to graduate in
to tho era of thought.
The new command Is "develope your brain
and use II In an intelligent manner for the
time Is not distant when there will be no
room In this world for him who shall have
nought to sell but his muscle, who can do
nothing but toll with his hands.
1t Is written upon the walls Of the temple of
fate, "Becomo a Thinker or PERISH"
Nor Is this hard doom. To the intcllec-
tual alone Is life blessing. The ignorant
man begins his career In cherries childhood |,
passes through toilsomo and anxious man
hood to sorrowiul old age, sinking at last in
to nameless grave.
The only possible, complete remedy for tho
owls that now afiiict society, and Of which
working meu and philanthropists so justly
complain, Is to abolish the monopoly Of brains
by making thought universal. This done,
aud the monopoly of wealth and power will
pass away forever.
r. A. BLAND, ". D.