Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-19

lstenCe, We shall see that the soul OF
man has two modes of life, one intelleC-
tual and one moral Very often these
two aspects of mans spiritual nature are
antagonistic, for the greatest rogucs and
despots the world has seen are those
who have had high intellectual devel-
opment without a corresponding moral
one; while on the other hand, those who
Oittimes suffer the most from their 0lrH
acts and cause others to suffer likewise,
are persons who have a very high moral
development, without sufficient mental
ity to balance it. 1t is fact worthy of
note that the strongest opponents of
change and those most intOlerant of
new ideas, are a certain class possessing
all the virtues OF mora lty, so that their
very honesty becomes the occasion of
their Stubbornness. A very honest, con-
sCientiOuS man, whose moral faculties
are highly developed, receiving his first
and most numerous impressions of SO.
Cialism from the capitalist press and
from other similar sources Of antagOn-
ism and misrepresentation, will be far
more imperviOus to its great truths than
one whose moral susceptib,ities are
weaker, The moral faculties receive
shock through these misrepresentation
They have the effect Of paralyzing for
the time being any intelligent perception
of the real truth so much so IN extreme
cases that it even affects their hearing.
As animal life may be present and yet
be paralyzed, SO too may intellectual
and moral life exist and yet be par
aIyzed. The paralysis of the intellect is
idioCy; that of morals is vice. Again,
socialism teaches that all individualism
Is predCatcd
LIST. Upon its anteCedent or inherited
germ force and character.
I'd, Upon environments or conditions,
physical and spiritual, by which it is sur
rounded when It's individuality first be
comes humanzed in birth.
Thus it is that socialism recognizes the
fact of individualism, and accepts the
logical consequences of its existence and
its necessity But, while socialism thus
asserts the fact and necessity of individu-
allsm, the question naturally arises,
What is its conception of the highest in
dividual development consistent with the
period in which said individual exists =
for human individuality is distinguished
| from vegetable or animal individuality
| by the striking of of certain restraining
! bonds, such as those that Contine vege-
| table or animal existence to certain loca-
tons or certain adaptation within very
restricted sphere of activity, 1t is thus
that liberty becomes the necessary cor
| ollary of human NATURALIZATION But
! liberty OF what, and to do what?
Let us see. We have spoken of the
soul of man as distinguishing him from
the brute creation. Having certain
wants or desires accompanying it
through which we recognize its exist
ence, we may reduce them to three
classes, l. e., the true, the beautiful and
the good. We find that it is the true
that satisfies mans reason the beautiful
his sentiment; and the good satisfies that
which is the harmony of both the true
and the beautiful, or, to use a common
expression, his head and his heart The
trlnlty of man $ nature is thus harmoni-
ously expressed when he has liberty to
labor, to learn and to love. The uues-
ton that now presents itself is, of what
and IN what does this liberty consist
with which man develops his highest in
diyiduallty?
To understand this, we must 90 back
to one of the original propositions
name Observation-Disclosures is predicated
upon Its anteCedent germ force and
character, and upon its environments at
and alter birth. Taking up the first and
without going into details or scientific
authorities, it may safely be said that a
child physical and spiritual condition
at birth Is the result of modifying causes,
both physical and spiritual, distinct
| from and unconscious to the parents of
the child, and by other like forces more
immediate, both conscious and uncon-
sclous to It's parents, Examples of the
effect OF both these antecedent and i'm
mediate causes upon character, temper
ament and physical perfection or imper-
lection are SO numerous and well estab.
llsned as to need no mention. Again,
diversity of climate, Of soil and of seen
cry play very, and. as we may say, all
important parts in this modification of
the individual germ. 1t is these forces
that have given an individuality to the
races, the creeds and the politics of man.
Perhaps the best example of this finds
illustr .ton through the work of the eth
nologisto in tracing the Aryan race to
its original stock, for climate. soil and
scenic influences have so diversified the
original characteristics Of this race that
they can only be traced by condolences
in the language of those who are other
wise entirely diSSimilar in complexion,
tongue, religion and manners. The
more lmme late, conscious and local
causes of modification are those depend
ing upon industrial, political and religi-
Gus environments, with art and science
as the common factors utilized in these
three spheres of activity. These have
also formed a portion of the antecedent
modifying causes, 1t is only after the
individuality has become unnamed that