St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-06

laws ought to be universally abolished, so
that man may have free scope to extract
the maximum of benefit from
the earth. Social arrangements
for the benefit OF all are not
laws, but adaptations of the laws of nature,
and all laws that reach outside the limit OF
bounty of nature, are wrong ana ueLrl-
mental to the general good in every sense.
The justice and injustice of all laws may De
traced out by all examination or the eHects
of laws in their various forms. A just law
is the result of necessity, and an unjust law
is the result of a purpose conceived in the
brain of man for certain benefits that may
be derived by class from its application,
not the general good. While man may take
those things which nature affords and
transform them into the various
things required to supply his needs,
by the aid of his talents, yet he
COULD NEVER CREATE
what nature yields. Man may till the soil
and plant but ne can never send the rain.
nor cause the process of termination to take
effect. He may build, trim aud man ship.
but he can never create the water on which
she floats. In a word. he may utilize ma
ture. but he can never create anything with
out its aid. He himself is in and of it.
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she can never equal it. The mission of
science is to prove it. she can never create
anything in it. And the mission of mechan-
lcal enterprise is to take from nature those
things which in her are and appropriate
them to the good of humanity.
But, say some, does not man conceive
and execute those features in the world of
progression? This does not alter the fact,
for ha ic cimplu apilnp in Suoh racnapt &c
the agent or instrument of his Creator IN
carrying out his designs. AS much as it is
necessary that a cause for his existence
must be. so it is that cause for his power
to conceive must be, and in this cause we
find the source of all that his talents set
forth. In short, man is a creature, hence
cannot be creator. Until man
can make perpetual motion;
understand himself; comprehend life;
define line, perceive an atom, account for
creation, he has no right to claim his Gre
ative power or that Of genius, save in so far
as 1t may be manifest in him in his develop
ment of the particles of nature. It is a
wrong to teach men that they are more than
they are. or to lead them on to an attempted
conception of things beyond their reach.
In all probability much of the distress eX-
perienced by the common people has been
the result of wrong tuition, and as result
misconception on their part.
They have been led to believe that they
were
DEPRESSED AND OPPRESSED,
as a result of the privilege being deprived
them to practice creation and reason being
overweighed by fashion, which is an easy
thing to do in the common place mind
they have been impelled, as it were, to
deeds of rashness and violence. The doc
trine of injustice and inequality has been
taught from the wreng standpoint; men
have been led to believe themselves greater
than they are and evil effects have been the
result in every instance where it has been
carried to action. That justice demands
equality among men, according to their sew
eral abilities, there can be no mistake.
nor does equality of rights constitute equal
ity OF power or ability-yet all men are by
virtue of their relation to God as their
creator. free and equal"
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