The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-19
THE FINAL QUESTION.
(COntSnued.)

"Mene, meme, tekel uphdrsin.h This is the inter
probation OF the thing: Meme, God hath
numbered thy kingdom, and finished II. Tekel,
thou art weighed in the balances and found
wantlng.-DanieL
Any new set of conditions occurring to an
animal which render its food and safety very
easily attained, seem to lead as q rule TO de-
generation, just as an active, healthy man
sometimes degenerateS when he becomes sud-
denly possessed of fortune; or as Rome de-
generated when possessed Of the riches Of the
ancient world. The habit Of parasitism clearly
acts upon animal organization in this way.
Net the parasitic life once be secured, and
away go legs, jaws, eyes and ears, the active,
highly gifted crab, insect or annelid may be-
come mere sac, absorbing nourishment and
laying eggs.-E. Ray Lancaster.
Amy principle which secures food to the in
dlV1dual without the expenditure Of work is
Injurious, and accompanied by degeneration
and loss of Darts-Drummond.
EDITOR ADvoCATE:-The words Of the
law are as plainly written upon
the walls Of the universe as they
were upon the wall Of Belshazzar's
palace; and they are the pronounce
ment OF doom against the system which
makes OF part Of humanity fat and
well clothed parasites, and of another
part starving and naked dependents upon
work-house or charity, and Of all the
rest parasite. Eternal death is at
it's heart How can it be the right
method Of a finite life? Mr.. Lancaster
is, l think, msterislist, and only sp-
piled his law to the physical welfare Of
animals, and 30 much Of the mental as
is purely material in it's source and result
Of action. Even there and 90 confined,
what q lesson is read to US by the Rris-
tOcPicies, whether OF wealth or Of blood,
in history! DR.. Wheeler has said: 'The
best becomes sterile; aristocrats in the
stable or in the palace cease after time
to have successors of their blood. The
best families die out. It Is the people
who survive" To the doctors use Of
the word "best" / object. The very fact
OF survival proves beyond q cavil who
are best by the laws Of nature, which are,
remember, the laws of God always and
in every part. Otherwise the statement
is indisputable. Is it not passing strange
that all humanity cliDgs to what they
call the laws Of industry, when every
page Of science, Of philosophy, Of history,
SO emphRtically announced that they
are in polar opposition to the laws Of
nature and of life, ard are in final effect
the laws Of desthg There is but one ex-
planRtion. | am not writing to q set Of
men who win dispute the truth Of any
important assertion which has been
made in these papers, nor could |, for
there is no such class Of men in this
world. In another and more diffused
form every newspaper is full of the same
statements and their accompanying illus
trRtive facts. The explanation of this
paFadoXical action is that men, enc0Nr-
Gged By the GUiSd modern church, have
resolved to set the laws Of nature at de
aance. Have resOiUed this with very
sufficient knowledge Of the law to con-
stitute them willful rebels and criminals.
They have said, as did the courtiers of
the 'Son Of st. Louis" "after US the
deluge; this thing will last our time and
we will be as rich as we can by stamping
other men into the mire of poverty while
it lasts." There is not thinking man
who does not anticipate, within the lives
OF his grandchildren at furthest, q social
Convulsion to which the French revo-
luton will have been as the explosion Of