The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-01

as are more rational and intelligent.
That is, as mans mind Develops he is
governed more by reason and less by
force. His affections grow more en-
lightened and spiritual. He becomes
more humane, kindly, benevolent and
philanthropfc. He grows naturally
more and more into the perfect life
The Christian principle Is native to
the human soul, and to realize it, man
must grow from the brutal into the
spiritual. Hence, progress as a pro-
cess rises more and more into the
psychical nature of man for its mo-
tive power. Progress brings the race
under the control of the law of love
and benevolence. Our laws and in
situations grow more humane. We
provide more amply for the poor. We
provide educational facilities for ALL
Freedom enlarges her sway; liberty
grows broader and more generous
Nations submit their grievances to
arbitration. International law and
comfy prevail. In a thousand ways
the world comes under the control Of
the higher and more spiritual affec-
ton and intelligence of the human
mind. This is the process and ten
dency of progress.
The Mother Love.
Now from the standpoint of the
most advanced science, we may af-
firm that the key and clue to all
this progress, humanity, benevolence
and altruism is found in the female
instinct of motherhood affection. In
the brute world we find the mothers
love for offspring stronger than the
instinct for self preservation. This is
an unfailing passion throughout the
whole course of organic life, whether
,, &C. oil FRI
ism or mother love, and in Christ it
broadens out to include the whole
human race. AS nations progress,
become humaniZed, Christianized; they
are drawn more and more into the al
truism of nature, the motherhood prin-
ciple of the race. Men may feel re-
luctant to make the acknowledgment
but it is true that in proportion as our
laws, institutions and social customs
become humane and philanthropic, in
that same proportion they conform to
the instincts and affections that are
naturally and historically characters
tic of womanliness and motherhood.
It was through this channel that the
creating love and charity first flowed
into human nature, and thence into all
human social relations. We may say,
therefore, that humane and benevo-
lent progress is essentially womanly
and has it's origin in motherhood al
truism. This principle in its develop
ment viii give us educational instltu-
lions, charitable foundations, larger
brotherhood in social relations, more
vital cooperation in government.
AS have already stated, a nation lis
an organism, and has a will and in
telligence peculiar to itself; it is an
enlarged family. Government is
species of housekeeping. 1t is equally
true that all modern ideas of govern
ment, such as are given in the Declar
alton of independence, locate the
source, origin and foundation Of gov
eminent in the whole membership of
the household, in the several indi-
viduals that constitute the family
Monarchical, aristocratic and class gov
eminent Withdraw from the member
ship of the family. An elder son. or
child of fortune usurps authority over
his kinsman. In this country the
principle of family government has
been adopted in theory to the fullest
extent. 1--WE, the people" is the for
mula for the beginning of all govern
ment. The only question is: Shall we
adopt our own theory and put 1t into
practice? That we should do so in
Utah and all over the United States
is the logic of the situation. 1t is the
IeSSOH VI A4lC Pooes mp ~ N--o
future.
An Alarming Type.
Moreover, our civilization in its
wealta1ier centres is now exhibiting a
type which is really most alarming,
and which, in my opinion, can only be
remedied by enlarging the sphere and
functions of woman so that she will
be vitality connected with the real and
substantial interests of society. 1
mean that among people in the great
Cities who are in possession of all the
accessories of wealth, where true
civilization ought to be the highest
and most refined, there it is already a
comparative failure. Women are absorb
ed in fashion, frivolity, vanity, display
and the thousand trivialities that rem
der life frivolous and worthless. They
have no part nor lot in the real work
of society; they are utterly ignored in
the substantial realities of industrial,
civil and political life; and being thus
driven to the delusive shadows of
opulent vanity, they become the moths
and butterflies that float about in the
halls and parlors of palatial mansions
and air themselves at watering places,
the creatures of caprice and weakness.
the gaudy glare of i'll gotten wealth
under our lopsided economic system.
This is the wealthy excrescence of