The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-23

nature can they be happy. / want TO
live without clothes, as far as my fell
low men will allow me to do So"
Mr.. Boeter then explained that he
could not state just what he would do,
as he did not know the islands yet.
He would like To acquire some land,
but did not care for whole island, as
he did not want to live in such secIu-
sion. he thought. as long as the site
chosen was at distance from any
town, the community could live In q
state of nature without interference.
OF course there would be some diff
Guilty at first, until the novelty wore
off. When the skin gets a little brown
it will look all right. as the bronzed
skin seems to look like clothing. In
Egypt persons went around perfectly
naked, and English and American
| ladies looked on freely.
Mr.. Boeter is completely possessed
with the idea that In the state OF
nature men are perfectly happy and
good. He accepts the picture OF pri-
mitive man as sketched in the old
Testament story, and says he asks no
better Paradise than that of Adam
and Eve. He thinks this account is
| good history, and cites passage from
| the narrative of an English traveller
who wrote a hundred years ago, and
| who describes the inhabitants OF the
Ladrone Islands as living in complete
| ignorance of all the world-living on
fruits like the birds; beautiful In
body and virtuous in soul, unvisited
by disease, and fully happy. III We
should strip ourselves of these epcum-
brances of false civilization, these
blood-heating meats and drinks, Mr..
Boeter thinks that evil and sorrow
would pass away. Moreover, our lives
would be enormously heightened; SO
| that even the 969 years of Methuselah
| might be outnumbered.
Mr.. Boeter recognizes the fact that
during the inclement winters of his
| native land nice WOODEN shirt, and
| even an overcoat, come in very handy.
| He therefore sees the hand of nature
| pointing all men to the tropics, and
| thinks it mere folly to live anywhere
| else. To the objection that all men
| cannot live in the tropics, he quotes
triumphantly book of certain DIR.
p. Andries, astronomer and vegeta-
| rian, who estimates that If Brazil were
as densely populated as Beigium-200
/ to the square mile-it would support
| the entire human race, and couple
| of hundred millions more thrown in.
This would give each man about three
| acres OF ground, and on three acres
| great deal more fruit would grow wild
than one man could ever eat. The
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billions of people.
| Mr.. Boeter also objects to the wear
| ing of clothes because the manufac-
| ture of cloth in factories is injurious
| to the health. If he compromises at
| all it will be in favor of the tapas of
| the South Sea islands, the making of
/ which is not Injurious and the wear
ing of which would be more whole
| some, owing to their looSer texture.
| However, he is not looking for any
compromise of any kind just now.
1t goes without saying that Mr.. Boe-
| ter's attitude toward governments and
] laws is similar to that of Paddy just
| landing in New York: "Is there
| government here? Then Pm agin it,"
| The arts and sciences fall under the
| same condemnation. They are artifi-
cial, they belong to an unnatural state
| of society, and they ''must CO." whe-
| ther the Chinese do or not. Educa-
| ton is just as bad. 1t makes men
weaker, is false from the womb. INA
| turap music, the instructive uplifting
| of the voice to express emotion, is all
| right. But there must be no accom-
| paniment. Mr.. Boeter does not want
any Steinway concert grand to insin-
uate itself into his paradise and inter-
| fere with its primitive simplicity. The
| poets are not wanted either, and he
| follows Plato in showing them to the
| door. You cannot have poets without
| printers, and printing is all tangled
up with civilization. Mr.. Boeter evil
| IDENTIFY does not care much for music,
| but he plainly has a weakness for
| painting. When the whole population
| of Deutschland gets up and moves to
| Brazil, he could not quite bear the
thought of leaving the Dresden Gallery
| behind. Painting is a noble art, a step
! up, because it shows the actual, the
naked human being. We cannot have
| pictures, however, without the appli-
| ances of civilization.
This seems like dilemma, but Mr..
| Boeter extricated himself with neat
| ness and despatch. Art has transit
| tional value. But the artists occupa-
ton is gone when life itself attains
| the level of art; when we constantly
| enjoy the spectacle of living, breath
| ing, healthy and beautiful human
| forms. When life itself is poem there
will be no need of poets.
Mr.. Boeter was disposed to be reti-
cent about his views on religion, but
| they ara in no way remarkable UI
like religion, but not churches. Ma
ture is my church. God, Nature aud
the Universe (Gott, Natur und Welt
| alp, l cannot separate in thought. /
wish to live as far as possible accord
ing to the will of God.''
Mr.. Boeter is a firm believer in mo-
nogamy which he considers a natur-
al institution, as the numbers of the
sexes are about equal. OF course he
will have no laws TO enforce it, as his
ideal Is perfect freedom and complete
independence for every individual. He
believes, however, that marriage will
flourish in the true state of nature.
He also brushes Nautilus aside with
the proposition that the population
will not grow so as to press upon the
means of subsistence, aud cites the
ape, which be claims remains in a
comfortable state of numerical equi-
librium.
Mr.. Boeter admits that there are
some difficulties in the way of intro
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