The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-05
APPLIED SCIENCE.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS DISCUSSED
SCIENTIFICALLY.
A. J. Kintz Looks Into the Questions
and Evolves Some Ideas Which
He Presents TO the Public
"A Danger signal,

gan of the mind, and is divided into
different groups of organs, each group
producing its own special nature and
character That the whole is first di-
vided into two grand divisions. The
first prompts the feelings and sentiments
of men and is called the brain of senti-
ment. The second is the intellect and is
devoid of feeling and deals with memory
and the power to reason from cause to
eff, 1t, and there is scarcely any limit to
expansion of its owner when properly
cultivated and is calculated by nature
to be tie lie ,der from its location and the
nature Of its functions. The first diyi-
sion is found in that pert of the bead
usually covered with hair. The second Is
located in and around the forehead and
the eyes.
Nearly all men are more or less the
slaves of some of the organs Of the senti-
mental bra n, and especially so when
those organs are large and active, and are
liable to be perverted by education or by
habit when not governed by the intellect,
tie natural ader in all such cases. The
lower group, or animal organs OF the
BRAIN such as amativeness, alimentive-
ress and so on, which, when perverted
make brutes, gluttons and drunkards of
men. Passing higher, take inhabitive-
ress, which prompts a love Of home ana
county. In the chronological scale,
which runs from to 7, when that organ
stands on or 2 there is little love for
either home or country, but when that
o. gan is active and stands higher In the
scale there is more danger Of that indi
yidual becoming a slave to that senti-
ment, and more need of exertiug tie in
tellect, which is less likely to be dore.
Many n en- becon slaves to that sentiuen
from the promptings of that organ and
the prompting of otte S that are inter
ested, and are ready to sacrifice their lives
and their fortunes in honor of their
country and flag. This is commonly
called patriotism, while much of e is
simply superstition. The same is true
Of the moral and religious organs Of the
brain. Large combativetes5 explains the
interest men take in dog fights and pugi-
listic encounters. Acquisitivere carries
men from the prodigal srendthrift, who
saves nothing, to the millionaire miser,
who Rrasps everything and whose grasp
ing disposition has caused more misary,
directly and indirectly, than war, famine
and restilence.
1t is this disposition tNat has cspital-
lied wealth, and with the aid of govern
ments has not only capitalized wealth but
has capitalized tie natural sources of
wealth. This hes robbed unit ID mil
Ions of their birth right and has driven
millions to seek pauTer wages in rei9n
cour tries. This capitalizing Of the nat
ural sources of wealth has made labor
dependent on capital for employment
and is fast driving American work u en-
from the fields of labor by making Crimi-
mails and filling their places with this
same convict laOO'.
Now man either has a right to live on
this earth or he has not; if he has, then
he evidently has the right to draw enough
wealth from the natural sources of wealth
to stain life, and if the intellect teaches
anything it would teach his combative-
ness that it was tie legitimate function
of that organ to fight for that right, and
the legitimate function OF the combative-
ness of all good citizens to see that that
right was sustaiued, and as much so as
to de end him in bis right Of property
from t. e burglar to the highway robher,
whether capital gets any thing out Of it
or not
But may be asked, What hes this to
do with the social question? 1t has
to do with it. Social condi- |
tions can never tie right until men as a
rule get right, and men lever can be
right until they follow their intellect |
their natural leader, rather than their |
feelings and sentiments. Man is either
an intellectual being or he is not. If be
is, then it becomes his duty as well as his |
business to exercise that intellect, not |
simply to crafty his own natural wants
and desires but for the welfare of So
ciety as we'll. II man is not an intelleo- |
tual being, then what is hep Man knows |
only what he lesrns he gathers his |
knowledge by observati1s, hearing and |
reading, and much of what he hears and |
reads is simply the promptings Of Others
tnat have axes to grind or are them selves |
the slaves Of some perVerte sentimental
faculty of tie brain. Her ce the Iecessity |
Of keeping an INTEL otlal eye on every
thing we see and hear.
During years of prosperity in this
country, people have paid their whole at
tention to raising crops and gathering !
wealth. Government is like whiskey |
while just enough of it is good thing
and necessary, when people get too much |
Of it they get the stlggers-they stagger
under the load. We preach liberty while
we practice tyranny. Citizens meetings |
are constantly being held, some to add
more burdens in order to get relief, others |
10 force people to walk in the paths of
reotitude according to their notions of |
mortality and observance of law.
But man says to me: What are you