The Progress., 1893-12-23

Iiadst thou to late Of men been made 10 lend
Thy .stefui breath, in battles din 10 blend
Thy voice. thou hadst long since made war to
cease.
Then st nd, mute prophet, at the portal where
A child. soft touch can thousands keep at bag.
Guard thou tie futures gateway while tho
mirth
OF gods shall take mans quarrel into air.
Balk thou worlds armies in their vain array.
So shalt thou bring the longed for peace on
earth,
THE WORLD UNITED.
Each day OF our life the treatment OF ,
crime and disease becomes more ana
more an international matter.
Cholera in Hamburg means cholera |
around the world unless checked by the /
united action of the authorities OF the !
world. The binding of the earth Il. /
gether with steam and electricity makes
necessary an international penal code
for the treatment of crime and crlml-
nails. Whether we like it or not, we
are being forced into federation of law
and order as wide as the world.
The JOYS and sorrows, the rights and
the wrongs, Of all nations become thus
daily more and more the concern OF
each and all, because they belong to
humanity. The famine in Russia, the
earthquake iii Kuchan, the prlsoned
explorer in darkest Africa these all
are our affairs. We cannot escape
them. Strange peoples, strange cos
tunes, strange languages, wide seas
these do not excuse. Fashion is cos
mopolitan. All language has yielded
the last secret. There is no more sea.
Humanity alone is supreme and is fast
/ clothing itself, building its dictionary
and pushing its domain from equator
to pole.
Two giants are to make new world
in the twentieth century-science and
democracy. They have already chal-
lenged the world to mortal combat.
Democracy is become international be
fore it becomes national, and as the fed
Grafton of capital has already become
worldwide so the federation OF labor Is
likewise becoming international.
Science was never anything else than
the supreme expression of universally.
Science acknowledges only the author
itv of truth. Truth can never be lin
tied by nationality. Truth is of the
infinite. 1t must in the nature OF
things include all of this little planet
and more besides than the mind of man
can grasp. The honor roll Of science
is of the human race. France may hight
Germany, but there can be no conflict
between the laboratories of Pasteur anC
Koch.
The discoveries of one are the com
mon heritage of the other, because the!
, belong first to humanity.
1t does not matter wether Humboldt
was a German. Frenchman, Italian o
Englishman.
|. II does not matter whether Spinoz
! was jew or gentle.
1t does not matter whether DARWIN
and Huxley are Englishmen or Bud
: dhists. Nobody asks-nobody cares
1t does not matter. Their achievement
is the common property of humanity
Science is the fraternity of the rae
over whose grand assemblies truth pre-
sides in peace and dignity. When sci
ence shall have subdued the world an
truth shall rule. where will then IT
:. main place for strife and jealousy an
: bigotry and hatred and war!
Letters have from their very blrt
been international. AS literature col
tinues to assert its power over men,
: internationalism must grow. The worl
= that reads does not ask or care wheth'
George Eliot was a man or woman
= English. German, French, Italian
; Spanish. She was human. She WI
- the daughter of mankind in her inspire
" utterance of the secrets of nature. 10
a stoi, Hall Caine, BOurget, Walter b
~ SAINT, Maarten Martens, Howells al
e the host of other living writers who +
- the press of the world today with Il
creations of genius are not limited
national boundaries for their audienc
Their readers are the race.
MUSIC AND ART.
4 Music laughs at national wars al
:. rumors of wars. A German wro
=, Faust" Frenchman set it to immc
tal music. and an American girl trar
~ Iates its divine secrets to the listenll
90 souls of the millions. The hymnolo
os of the world laughs at hatreds and 81
picions. at creeds on paper and histol
on traditions.
Is The Protestant church hears a Catho
of cardinal sing Lead, Kindly Light
no and reports it with increasing JOY. L
~ ~ Trinitarian sings with the Unitaria
~ ~ Music is the language of the hum
" soul. 1t cannot be limited by creed
be clique or province or nation. AS mu
~ ~ lifts and sways the world it brings
- with each throbbing note nearer
nd unity and harmony of life.
So of art. The great artists Italy
of given the world are claimed as the d
N itage of man. Who cares whether
~ phael was Italian or Dutch, whetl
~. Rembrandt was German or lrlshE
49, does not matter. Nations do not
sess such men. They belong 10
l. fraternity of man.