The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-15

velOp hardiho0d and Independence. DE
drew them forth into wider oppor-
tunities, and amid greater inspirations
to individual culture. The descendants
of Shem retained the plain. and slowly
extended south-westward. The main
stream of the Hamites spread over Ca
naan and on into Africa. Another
stream turned itself eastward toward
Persia and India. The Japhetites jour
neyed northward, and divided into two
currents, one turning north east, the
other north west. These three funda-
mental divisions have over-lapped each
other, and have been subdivided many
times, and yet dim outline remains
Shem in Asia, Ham in Africa and Japh-
eth in Europe and America
Both the W isdom and goodness of God
in that original scattering Of the race,
are demonstrated by history. 1t is a
well known fact that the greatest indi-
yldual liberty, and the best general cul-
ture have been enjoyed by sparse popu-.
lations while nations have been forming
1t is as clear, that soon as peoples have
been fully combined under centralized
individual liberty has
been suppressed, responsibility denied,
and culture prevented, and thus the
great purpose of probation has been
thwarted. MAllthis has been conspicuous
in the rise, careers and perishing of the
great world monarchies.
The delightful narrative of the life Of
Abraham reveals the conditions oS gen.
eral society under family government
in Assyria, Chaldea and Syrian his dak.
He unfolded grand manhood in per-
feet freedom. The majestic and unr1-
vailed epic of Job, written in those days,
is another lifting of the veil from patri
archal life. Men with such sentimen ts,
and capable of uttering them in such
sublime language, were never surpassed
in. any times individuals were of &C.
count then, The noblest culture was at
tainable. How changed when under the
long, cruel, relentless despotism of the
Assyrian and Chaldean empire. The
millions we're merely the beasts of bur-
den, driven by the few. When we re.
feet upon the utter brutishness to which
the masses were depressed for ages by
the despotisms, we cannot wonder that
the unrivaled plain which was an almost
boundless garden, covered with perpet-
ual harvests, has been for long ages a
bowling wilderness. Egypt, Rome and
Greece exhibit like histories. All those
peoples he'd traditions of golden age
That age was the time of individual lib
erty, preceding the massing in empires.
In them all, consolidation under CEN
tralized governments, massed the people
in two classes. One a small number of
rulers and their pets, who, rioting in
idleness, in unrestralned sensual indul-
gences, and in absolute power, degener-
ated to a horrid compound of beasts and
devils The other was horde of slaves,
losing in despair ali aspirations to noble
lives, and sinking to the level of brutes.
Then came decay and the falling of Ba-
bells, amid scenes of human misery sick
ening to contemplate.
China Is an enigma, which demands
careful and profound study. Within
that strange civilization are forces which
have checked the utter suppression of
Individuality The family has been
kept partially intact. Supreme devotion
to parents has been the palladium of the
home. Universal industry and economy
is another remarkable fact in the "Celes-
tial empire" Compared with the other
great world monarchies, China has re-
tanned the status of the maximum Of its
civilization wonderfully. But China is
There are no elements of ad-
vance in it. Such civilization cannot
endure contact with the forces now at
work over the civilized world, and which
are penetrating China in spite of her
guardian genius. She may, however, be
redeemed without making her desert
like the lands of Assyria, Chaldea and
Egypt. Turkey is in the last stages of
What terrible history her
despotism has made. So-called Chris
tian governments that are despotic are
the results, inevitable to CEN
traIized powers They build Babels to
be blasted by Jehovah as he vitrifed
the great Tower. The Babel of Russia
has resulted in an aristocratic class
claiming a divine right to oppress their
fellows. They are sensual ,s sunscrupu-
Ious and merciless. They trample on the
rights Of proper ty, of family ties, and of
conscience; and have degraded the
masses to real slaves. So is it, in differ
ent degrees, with all the monarchies OF
Europe The monster image of govern
ments by force, though smitten often, and
reared by the stone cut out ofthe noun
tain without hands," mas not yet fallen;
but is now reeling to its speedy breaking
up. Des potisms are being shaken to
their foundations, by the forces which
Christianity has called forth through sci
ence. Electric lights are glaring upon
the monster wrongs done to the masses
who are ground to the earth by tyran-
nies. The minds of the despairing and
stupid hosts are being illumined, warmed