The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-09
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' No iUVUIhlt w Wfll W llf IiIlHl'Nl N'llN
s to-day characterized by this revolutionary
feature. We see II In the large operations
and investments Of capital and labor, rail-
ways are being built Of such lengths and
through such difficulties as would have
been considered some li,te while back as
impossible Of construction; canals are pro-
posed that would before have seemed as
but the visions of enthusiastic and SILLY
drcamers; mills, mining operations and
factories are in existence now that would
have astounded the merchants and Others
of ante.bcllum times houses of nine and
ten stories height are getting to be common
| in New York and some other larger cities
elevated and underground rapid transit
railroads, etc, are made to supply the place
| of the slower omnibus and the street-car
/ and so on all through the course. Twenty
/ five years ago the millionaire was the eN'
cepuon, to-day they are common in our
great commercial centres, and their homes
I vie with and sometimes surpass in mag
nihcencc and expense, the former castles OF
princcly uabobs. So tits in the intellectual
arena. The world wants more thought, new
thought, larger thought and conduct. Ac'
c1rdingly we observe the increased size OF
the daily and weekly newspapers, grown
from the humble single folio to the mann
moth proportions of quadruple and quin-
tuple sheets, with all kinds of news from
all parts of the universe. Magazines of all
the professions and trades are being multi
. ID V.
In religious matters, too, the world moves
and as civilization thus expands, thought
grows freer in its range and boldcrln Its eX-
preston. The cobwebs that have obscured
and the false lights that have misled are
being brushed away and new views are
openinr ON us all the while. The science OF
medicine and of surgery as well, Is each
making rapid strides in the achievement
of good to humanity, the ALIENATION OF
suffering and the extension OF lie. All
this comes from friction, the friction OF
thought with thought, experience with ex-
perience. In this connection we are graft
fed TO perceive what we consider the al
yanced move recently made by the Medical
Society of the state of New York, more par
ticularly referring to the freedom oil action
permitted in regard to consultations with
all legally qualified practitioners, one with
another, be they allopaths, or homeopaths,
or hydropaths. This is surely step III the
right direction by that grand body of men
to whom this world owes so much of COM
fort and its happiness. There was at least
to many layman's mind, an appearance
o. of bigotry, intolerance and narrow-minded-
n ess in the restrictions that the allopaths
had before imposed.upon themselves in that
respect that its effect mot to allay certain
suspicions of some who were oitentimes
WILLING 20 believe reports abOrU bread pills
and rpra pura cures followed by sub
scgueut applications Of an accountum mag
mum as steel striking against steel Degets
the shark. SO tho friction Of thought with
Thought produces the desired light II
4Iopatly be inferior to home opathy, the
.ru.r Tho world knows it the better; and
ia, same 100 if homeopathy be astray'
But If each have many things
Iof GOOD, and this can be ascer-
tanned only by practical, every day study,
suffering mortals have the benefits. Let
humanity's veal take precedence over pro-
fessional rigidity. Let the respectable prac-
titioners of the one school affiliate with
those of the other, and the survival OF the
fttest will follow as surely as the day the
night. That disposition which ties wholly
and clings with moss tenacity to the old
through prejudice or habit, be this IN
what department of life we may
choose. the social, the religious, the
political will write its own epitaph IN
due time. The world moves and will con-
tinue to move changes are continuously
TRANSMITTING, and new adjustments have as
constantly to be made, Just as IN the human
frame the bones and tissues are being re-
newed through the substitution of the
instantly decaying particles by the
fresher deposits which the blood
conveys along its scarlet course
For il is fundamentally true that the social
organism and the individual organism are
essentially alike, and the nutritive particles
that circulate along the life-giving liquid,
has for each of its corpuscles separate
/ life-history as distinct as our social or other
/ institutions. The one gives life to the indi-
v'Iual, the individuals compose the aggre-
gated nations with their social require
ments Universal progress is the law dis
tinguishing humanity from others OF GODS
existent beings. The human household is
different from the sponge which represents
a kind of ubaqueous city, as has been
said, where the Teople are arranged about
the streets and roads so that each mechani-
callymay appropriate his food from the water
as it passes along. And in these new re-
lations and myriad combinations, which
distinguish the human species IN IT'S up
ward and onward route, no one man nor
set of men, physicians or others, can ex-
pect that through them alone, or any set
system of others, must be evolved or dis
covered the new transpirings. The day has
passed when intense seclusiveness can be
long maintained in either medicine or other
things. The higher kinds Of skill and
knowledge were once exclusively appro-
priated by the priests. And so OF medicine
which was secret Of the Egyptian
priests. and in Greece it was for
a long time carefully concealed,
and Transmitted from son 20 son. But times
have changed, and the inquiring mind has
burst these bounds in this era Of freedom.
The New York physicians have risen 1t
docs seem TO us, to the conception and adj
mission Of this truth by their commenda-
be action as stated, and unquesiioned re-
sultant advantage must ensue. IL d TO be
boped that other state societies viii initiate
the veIl-timed example, and that the Amer