San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-01
TURN TO THE RIGHT.

over which men travel. 1t matters
not that the law is an unwritten
one In most instances, it is no less
the law of the road than if it was
written in the statute book of the
nations. This unwritten law gov
ems the priest and the poet and
the sage and the philosopher and
the scientist and the pietist, just
as certainly as the written law
governs the man who drives his
team along the county road, or
adown the crowded thoroughfare
of the populous city. The man of
affairs and the man of leisure; the
busy housewife and the woman Of
pleasure; all feel the pressure Of
this unwritten law, and those who
are wise govern themselves ac-
cordingly. There is true philoso-
ply as we'll as true wisdom in ac-
cepting the Inevitable.
Yet there is no law of the great
humanity, written or unwritten,
that is more habitually broken
than this, not even that one which
says thou shalt not covet thy
neighbours wife. Why it is so is
one of the conundrums, and the
people who 60 through life answer
ing interrogation points have time
for little else. 1t ia not the aim Of
the LIGHT preacher this morning
to engage in this Improbable
work, but simply to. point out the
facts, show the.tendency to disobey
the law, andl set forth the con-
fusion, i'll feeling and real danger
.ipcident to + lpernicious habit.
fhst +, Is the law of the street
and Of the highway is not disputed,
and yet there are those who are 80
foolish as to deny the obvious
truth, and as aresult they pay the
penalty of being. fools. Nearly all
OF 1.-THE serious complications that
arise in the world of business, let.
ters, arts, science, law, language,
literature, government, society,
arise from mistaken notions as to
the applicability of the law to the
special condition, or to an erroneous
impression that the law can be
broken with impunity, or to the
false idea that men have OF theil
personal and Individual iudepen
dence of act and speech ant
thought, where. Others are not di
rectly implicated..o or involved will
them.
Nothing is farther from the truti
than this. There is no man indie
pendent OF his fellows. No man, NJ
matter how isolated, who is not 81
much at the mercy Of his fellow
that it is suicidal for him to max
any calculations that leave tn
other fellow..outside Of the comb
nation. After all that has beel
preached by the politicians, an
the socialists. land the humanita
rians, and the so-called true dem
ocrats about personal liberty, ther
is no such thing. Not only no PEI
sonal liberty in so far as govern
ment is concerned, but no libert
of personal action, that is no pei
feet liberty, that is a liberty will
in the natural and,acquired.pow
and functions of the individual.
If you think that suchiliberty
yours, just try to exercise it. Sta
down street some day. You are
perfect liberty, you think, to dire
your own movements. Your i
y
terror governor issues the cor
mand "Eyes, Front! Follow yo'
nose. March % You lead of wit
your left trilby, stepping out abo'
twenty-eight inches, following OF
foot with the other, and you ket
right in the center Of the wal
All right. About the middle
the second block you meet a fello
coming up street, who weighs 81
teen ounceA avoirdupoise to yo'
twelve ounces troy. He also is
the center OF the pave. Do yc
not think that the freedom OF 20
ersonal movement will be int
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