Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-25
eELLAMYs ,,rn..
Social Philosophy Can ~.
Noyaii.i.. -. ~ Apprns. !.

Social Philosophy a.. u
Novelist. Fs an Approve i !
Nor, while dismiss,nr
lamy ssch .e can the social sI ~, ", Hs
even admit that the obies as pailosophs,
scheme proposes is desirshlss which la,
fantasy OF state in Witt WeHN,
should have enough ara 'oh every On.
which the conditions Of liie . ~, spare 1
to be arduous and stern fro re- should ceas
and solicitude for the fntua a. which Can
banished and the necesss :; should d
come easy to all--were thi H. il ls shopl
dream shown to be capahls S,h seas
ton well might the pbilannol realt4
claim, Alas for MANKIND, ,snropis d.
Deen races that have lived wit mere Aan
without struggle, without s' sa care
tnese nave never become np ps,nsi but
Except for care and struac, noble races
men would never have r; sao ana pain
intellectual and physical al s, above tie
poiynesian savages. Thew STATURE b
that cark and cares that kil,. ~ caNs
struggles that are unavail;n' There ap
pains that b, depress, and A1 b,,s saers az
dwarf. Well may we look t hight and
better state, in which much ~ l !, 70,
ness OF the human conditi IL ''le harsh
mans own efforts, have hoo snail, By
But 1t was no Bellamy who sai iSe% q
the sweat OF their brows sbouls iu 'aath
bread; that with agony sbon, I men n eat
born into the world; and tha4 'neyh
always, in disappointment IAN and = s l,sq
often' with anxious thought ~ ~ aeieas
foreboding that ceases oniy At !, t aua with
should they live their lives ~ 'a !. grave
dying weary Of the STRUGGLE 'nrough
ing IN the hope of a better fo Of, aelos
more generous terms for tbos. 'u u and
to come after '0 VINO aN
quite as little can we .nn..
fundamental law of Mr.. RAIL- n,o'oo The
tary republic, that there shonld , !, mill
distinction of material condition :. Oe no
It's members. Mr.. Bellamy tries I - among a,
this prescription on high ethics, y pace
49, faa. IN, ing phrases do not dspuiss
ene TACT that the proposed distribsta
involves the grossest violation :, sa
mon honesty, as every plain man ns S,lp
stands it. To say that one who n,o a,asN
twice as much as another shall va.sa
no more is palpable robbery. + 'a i
make that man for half his time ,, j. "
working for others without rews. s''s
is one of the dangers of trapscensa,.,
reasoning about rights and morale ,h'.
the finest of sentiments are oft4n toa..
IN close proximity to the baldest Y,
rascality.
But the fragrant dishonesty q, a.
proposition to destroy all distinctior y
the material condition of the comm ,ni,-
is, l make bold to say, the leas, oh;s.
ton to it. Such leveling downwsy
would bring a speedy end to ali rta,
iectual and social progress, to be hi.
lowed at no late day by retrogression and
relapse. 1t is only by the distinction ,t |
some that the general character Of ~
mass is to be raised. There are nlen,
OF tribes and races among which NJ,
Bellamy's creative principle of absolute
equality of condition is and has been i'm.
memorially in full operation. Upfor
tunately for his case, they are all misr.
able imbruted savages. Even the fail
that among some of them the additional
principle of the selection of chiefs bvtb
elders of the tribe is of unknown anti.
guilty has not served to lift them in The
scale of humanity. They are still door,
squalid wretches in spite of the adOp
ton of both these prescriptions for turn.
ing the earth into a paradise without
any intervening change in human nat
ure.-Francis A. Walker. in Atlantic