Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-01
lcOMNuSIuArHn.I
THE PRUBLtu o. AGENCY.

I
anu tbat Interference with perso al
agency is seen every nore 10 human
experience, L. 90 p'si. a. TO require no
comment, but few tIef are who arc
masters Of thnir own acts or even Of
their own Thoughts; snl race prOclivl-
TICS arc ss muen the product Of the
whole as Of each Individual appar.
emily.
There Is but little originality In She
masses OIe here aud there by per.
sonal Will makes position. The
majority need one made Tor them, viii
is weak aud enterprise 10 stiguani;
they move In groove aud are auioms-
tons almost. Put them anywhere,
there they remain. They vogctaiv
ana DO not grow They are satisfied
with little rather than % increase that
little Of lhoir own y1Iillon. Probably
q fow are moved by example. They
try 10 Initiate anu in ina, advance a
squnre or two on tho clockof.bOard Of
lie. Hence but few msn employ
ihcm'oiyos. rhoy have u DO ems
pioyed, aui rs Of OLD, they stand Ia
the market place because emo man
hath hired thcm.D
Thousand, are lniisposed 10 work
save at thR. 10 which they have been
accustomed. Aiaptabilily u laosing.
rdefo Ia no sol -help or seltrelianoe.
The pointing ola pin, the polishing Of
a needle, driving team, immuted In
a coal niue, or claiming to DO a me.
chanic, men will hesitate almost ~
starvation point ere they take up
earnestly (and then hardly ever sue.
ccssiully) something 10 which they
are uuacoustomod. The force Of cir.
cumstanous Insists at times that this
shall be- otherwise. The fathers Ia this
Territory were made fsrmem-many "
them by cOmpuIsIou. / they had
wanted 10 they could not have got
away from here; being exhausted
ON arrival; aud uceming July absolute
tnoy reluctantly remained. like the
Pioneers who "oame horo willingly
because tney were Obliged" as Pfcsi.
dent q. a. smith used " say.
But they never loved their occupa.
tiun, aud M this feeling ccnters prob.
aAy fact Of science. Gull.
drvn NO born and raised, rebtl,
dislike, forsake that which alter years
Vi experiences 10 tue past Of tue fathers
has become a matter Of routine anu
habit, a modification 10 indifference
or acquioscvnce, spite Of this original
dislike.
We heard Of person who said 10
President Young that ho would never
raise boys " his own occupation
merchandising; but after yean found
number % engaged. 10 usu semi.
vulgar phrase, "that which was bred
Ia the bone would come out In the
flcshi' "liko (it may DO said bsget-
ike" aye arc Of your father the
devil" said good authority, "ior hi.
works 80 DO" Per contra, tho claiai
Of paternity made by the Jovs ~ tu
Father Abraham was denied on d
philosophiO ground, "lf 80 were the
children Of ALBANIAN 80 would DO the
works " Abraham"
Have not many been "boru into the
kingdoni VI God" because VI The spir.
itual longing Of their fathers, who
yeaTa prior 10 itA advent had
fallen aslecI? Parental characteristics
arc repeated, as all comment
trsuhts. How like bis father,
In walk, gesture, procliv.tles, mental
or business aoumeui GLOW like the
mother" Gays an .bserveB "all her
beauty, her cluyorness, her spirit and
pouOul" "H1W like the fa,hor Ia
some lhIng-, how like the mother Ia
otheul" says another. How modified
and blended At times when mutual
love and regard determined an unfors-
seen future! AND further, how again
at times close parentago IL ignored or
uuperceiyou, because herouity struck
back generation or two, reproducing
ancestral features for a surprise,
II the aspirations, characteristics and
features are thus reproduced, what OF
Individual agencys When an In
velerate umukard repeats himself In
his p0s,erily, where 10 the agency Of
tho ohill2 When posterlty 10 cursed
with disease Or with passions beyond
control, ID 10 not simply the twisting
OF tho sins OF the fathers upon the
children unto the third or fourth gem
erhuou2"
Even II tho assertion lie made
that agency gan modify by Guilt
walton OF repression this undoutted
inheritance, s 1t not at times
aner much struggle, lifelong effort aud
vast co.3 For power used Ia this way
Is evident waste aud might have been
prevented parohance by intelligent
consideration, Tho old saying 10 not
yet worn out, though repeated almost
ad nauscam, "Fe cannot gather grapes
from thorus % hgs from thistles;" and
common sunse does not look for special
sobrloly boo the Irunhard'a home; does
not count on virtue In the haunia Of
pfohIgacyi i1e not expect special iu-
dusIry in the offspring OF the idler;
does not asb i0r nigh typo OF reyer'
! enCe, devotion, religion where skepticB