Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-02-06

wrought on unlike all others. We require
allpersons to go to school through life, learn
ing whatever is adapted to their years. In
this way children are not forever knowing
more than their parents
We are also particular to make the schools
adapted to growth Of body as well as Of
mind For the first twenty years no child Is
allowed to study with the brains more than
one consecutive hour. Play is called body
study, and is as carefully taught as any other
/ science. Every school includes drill in me-
chanical arts as well as arts of culture His
tories used are mainly cotemporary, so that
children are no longer brought into close re-
lation with the old brute ages, the wars,
kings and beastly acts OF men who were only
half evolved. They are taught thus to look
forward and not backward.
WHAT EVOLUTION HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
Evolution in 1886 was thought Of as for
the most part theory that concerned the
past. Men were busy hunting up their an
cestors. We have learned that the larger
application Of evolution is to secure noble
descendants The average of human life Is
already increased to so, and old age does
not begin till over 100. One man out of
every 200 reaches the age OF 1875; one out OF
each 900 attains $50 years; and seventy
well-authentcated cases are on record reach
ing over 200 years
But what would our ancestors OF 100
years ago say to our Heredity islands 10
1928 it was agreed at the Council of Nations
TO set apart Bermudas Madagascar and
New Zealand as nurseries of humanity;
where, by carefully adjusting environments
we could raise select and vastly superior
~ hat 4i,, y,f
a grand future humanity. To these islands
were sent infants, selected from all the
world, as the most absolutely perfect in
brain, body and beauty. The result already
is that we have Shakespeares Bacons and
Platos to order, with bodies like Apollo, and
souls like Brahma We have already sulli-
cient of these men of science to furnish us
with international counselors In few
generations they win overrun the earth and
redeem the nations
One hundred years ago evolution as APP.
piled to animals produced feetness or fat
or milk all sensual results. but valuable
No one had made q study of evolving the
intelligence Of animals But in 1905 NJ.
marpere selected n few St Bernard dogs Of
remarkable intelligence, and by careful
breeding killing Off all weak intellect, and
educating those of superior brains, he laid
the basis of the noble dogs Of science of our
day. In 1928 sort Of articulation was
noticed in the breed Desire to express
themselves had finally affected the larynx:
and now we have dogs capable Of abstract
thought and vastly superior to the lower
races of men.
UTILIZING TRAMPS AND CRIMINALS.
A most remarkable social advance is in
the utilization of vagabondage 1t is now
forty -four years since every person must
show that he was of some value to the state
contributing his one-man power TO the pub
lie advantage The vast system of irriga-
ton that now covers the continent and
renders a drouth impossible; the charging
of the secondary batteries for lighting the
continent, and for moderating the extremes
of the northern climate; the construction of
all public buildings is done by those who
formerly preyed on society. Prisons and
poor-houses are abolished. Criminals and
vagabonds are all at work.
All punishment Is Ieformatory. Those
three times arrested are made to connect
the wires of the powerful batteries used in
connection with the public crematories, and
are thus instantaneously killed After two
trials under the system of enlightenment if
reformation does not follow the case is con
sidered hopeless, and the effort ended. Crime
haunts are rendered impossible Criminals,
once convicted, are children of the state"
They are secluded at their employments,
and, if reformed, are never returned to So
ciety or allowed to propagate their species.
Compiled from "E. p. p" in Globe-Demo-
crat