The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
beasts of the field? Is man less worth

beasts of the field? Is man less worth
the effort than they?
Most parents love their children
dearly. and intensely desire their adj
vancement in all that is good. Here
tofore the world has been content to
accept children as chance or unguided
impulse created them-oftcn sadly
handicapped by inherent evil tenden-
cies they could not successfully resist
and then to surround those children by
such favorable conditions. educational
or other, as were within the means of
the parents. Teach the world the truth
about heredity and it will quickly apply
this great power for the production OF
men and women superior to those of
to-day. and in due time will demand
that the same laws shall be observed to
prevent the perpctuation of the evil
classes. Hereditary influences will yet
become the study of, and their proper
application the great aim of man. The
momentous truths have long been IN
needed bv most races, but they should
be proclaimed to the world until they
shall have electrified and aroused all
mankind, and the rapid march of
progress shall have been everywhere
begun. By making universal the
knowledge of the operation of these
powerful influences that control to a
very great extent the life of every be-
ing, much will be done. BY inducing
general observance of the laws of
heredity what may not be accomplished?
The physical powers may be so
strengthened and developed that sick
ness, deformity and insanity will be as
rare as they are now common. The
moral character may be so purified and
fortified that temptation will no longer
tempt. and the tide of dishonesty that
threatens to overwhelm the nations will
be turned aside harmless. The mental
powers may develope until each sue
ceeding generation be composed of in
tellectual giants, towering high above
those from whom they shall have
sprung. Then artists with brush, or
pen, or chisel, or sound will be in truth
born, not made-born with talents so
enlarged and intensified that they shall
discern beauty and truth more clearly
than they were ever before seen. and
shall interpret them Alright to the
world. Since civilized man was a saw
age brute, thousands of generations ago,
he has made but sorry progress in the
the march of improvement. Through
natural selection that was not far re-
moved from chance he has gained more
than by conscious design. All this
weary time he has been climbing up
two steps and been slipping back one.
Frequently he has APPARENTLY lost sud-
denly, by the introduction of destruc-
tive blood elements, all he has gained
by fortuitious circumstance.
Is not the teaching of truths so preg-
inant with the good of the highest kind a
MISSION worthy of the noblest minds?
Can a life be devoted to a more leneficent
cause than that of showing man SO to
use this natural force at his command
that he will quickly elevate all to a de-
gree of culture now unknown an eve
uninmagined9 Is it not better that a
man be born Alright at first than that
he be born again9 Is there not in these
truths a gospel which, if studied as
earnestly and urged as ~zcalously as the
grand truths taught by Christ have
been studied and urged, will at least
hasten greatly the regeneration of maD-
kind?-E. W. Perry, IN tie Current.