The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-11

mantle notions becoming practical and
all that In fact, 1t was nothing more nor
less than the debauching of a soul"
RELIGION UNDER THE NEW ORDER.
Mr.. Bellamy's ideas to the religious
conditions OF the new order are in marked
contrast to the dogmaucally materialistic
attitude of the ruling socialistic doctrine
in continental Europe. Mr.. Barton tells
Julian that the direction in which the
progress of the race has tended most to
increase human happiness has been in the
science of the soul and it's relation to the
Eternal and Infinite: This progress has
been the result not merely of a more ra-
tional conception of the subject and COM
plete intellectual freedom in its study. but
largely also of social conditions which have
set almost wholly free from material
ENDORSEMENTS. You will observe as
you come to know more of our literature,
that one respect in which it differs from
yours Is the total lack of the tragic note.
This has very naturally followed an mae
cessible security, hid in God as Paul said,
whereby the accidents and vicissitudes of
the personality are reduced to relative trtV-
fality. The religion of Christ, de-
pending as it did upon the experience and
intuitions of the unselfsh enthusasms,
could not possibly be accepted or under
stood generally by a world which tolerated
a social system based upon fratricidal
struggle as the condition of existence"
We are told that under the old order too
often what was called love of country
might better have been described as hate
and jealousy of other countries. But under
the new patriotism is no longer mar
tial sentiment and is quite without warl1ke
associations LAS the flag has lost its for
mer significance as an emblem of outward
defiance, it has gained a new meaning as
the supreme symbol of internal concord and
mutually; it has become the visible sign
of the social solidarity in which the welfare
of all is equally and impregnably secured.
MANIFOLD CHANGES.
The manifold changes that a radical
transformation in industrial and social con-
ditions would bring naturally present fas-
cinating field for speculation. There are
instanced many of these for the readers
edifcation. Science and invention, freed
from the trammels Of capitalism, have re-
ceived a. tremendous impetus and their
achievements are marvellous. The tyranny
of fashion has been overthrown; sanitation
and medical science have made wonderful
strides; great cities have been eliminated
and population is more evenly diffused over
the land; and on the other hand, there
has been general reforesting, nature has
everywhere been made beautiful and the
entire land has been made into one vast
park.
The book is so full of ideas, so replete
with suggestive aspects, so rich in quotaple
parts as to form an arsenal OF argument
for apostles of the new democracy. Many
important points must go untouched IN an
article like this, and the reviewer can only
mention the account of the great reVolu-
ton, it's development and progress; of the
transition period; and The Book or the
Blind" in which the riouS objections to
the scheme OF the or0~r are summed up.
AS with Looking Backward, the HUI
name and thoughtful reader will lay down
Equality and regard the world about
him with feeling akin to that with which
the child of the tenement retuInS from his
country week to the -oul smells, the dis
t,Afc 1nA Two
Wonted environment
Immense changes are undoubtedly In
store for the coming century. The indus
trial transformations of the world for the
past hundred years seem to assure for the
next hundred a mutation in social condi-
lions commensurately radical. Much or TINS
must transcend forecaSting. But the ten
dency is undoubtedly toward human unity;
social solidarity. II is strongly indicated
that science will more and more make So
cial evolution a voluntary self-directing
process on the part of man.
Two StraWS, significant of the prevailing
wind, may here be mentioned. Not long
ago 1 read an article written by an eminent
professional man, one of the foremost in
his calling devoted to a careful eXamlna-
ton of the basis OF property rights, show
ing that the tenure Of property rested sole
ly on convention, and that 1t was TINS alone
that prevented it from being robbery: The
writer's name was withheld for fear OF per-
scout on and loss OF livelihood.
In the latest number OF a great American
magazine there was a review of the eVolu-
ton of democracy in the past century,
written by a well-knoWn college professor.
1t closed with a prediction that the democ-
racy of the coming century would stand for
economic equality Mr.. Bellamy phrase,
| believe.