St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-11

plete? The story of Babel says that it
Is not That climate, language and
Toll were not sufficient to found. q
slapie society when God came down
Ihose who are fitted to be our lead
ers In social study are more and moro
convinced that physical evolution of
society is altogether too simple and too
easy 10 explain the facts of human
history. Man himself is a factor. and II
must be said is the chief factor in anv
advanced stages of civilization. AS
soon as man comes to himself socially
ike the prodtgal son, he considers his
environment, and if he thinks if nm
worthy, like the prodigal, he saws. s.T
VIII ARISE and go unto my father"
Inns power in man to choose is nv M
means extended through all classes of
men IN equal power. yet it influences
me masses of society through that imi-
tatlon which arises from association,
IN all animal life, but esneciaII,,
through that power of. reason which
makes 1t possible for man to think ont
soniethlng better than the conditions.
"hlch inheritance and nature have i'm
posed upon him.
A recent doctrine in economics do
MES wholly the old mechanical 1au,s
OF trade by developing the influence of
human choice. Human choice is inf1u-
enced by the mental standard of
values. We easily see how this is in
works of art, and in the spiritual
commodities which we call music
poetry and the like; but this
LAW IS UNIVERSAL;
ana 1t shows how economics are to be
continually modified by human deveI-
opmeht.
The theory OF utility will DEPEND at
last upon what is plaasurable to man.
but what is pleasurable will deDerd
upon the size of the man. Phfloso-
piers do not play with tops and mar
bles.
We see, therefore, the intellectual
order arise out of the physical and be-
come dominant
1t remains to be said that of all ar
ustic products the greatest souls see
that the beauty of holiness is the very
hnest Man is noblest. neither through
MS body, nor through his mind bur
through his conscience The progress
OF society is from the physical, through
the intellectual, to the spiritual. The
physical order breaks down, for it can
not even preserve its primitive Ian
suages. Each language is the sur
V1Val of the best dialect in the struggle
Tor national unity. Here and in a thou
sand places, the human intellect as
serts itself. But the moral readiust-
ments of society are among the most
significant of modern times. Slavery
or the control of an inferior race NV
the superior is intellectually right and
morally wrong. Many of the so-called
laws of trade are intellectually right.
and are morally indefensible. The
spiritual man will be the victorious
man.
And what are reformers? These are
they who awaken the dormant moral
power of the people. These are thew
who lead the way out of the physical
ana the intellectual into the spiritual.
The final unity of the world must be
a moral unity. This will react upon
intellectual conclusions and upon phys
zeal differences, as it already has done.
When God really dwclls in the midst
OF men on the plains of Shinar and
works with them in building their
city and tower, they will no more be
scattered abroad upon the face of the
earth, and the sweet language OF
human brotherhood will never again
be confounded