Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-23

just as truly as the ouigF0wn houses
OF the coral polyp.
THE LENGTH OF LIFE,
Life 10 Therefore suen to have
physical i'm mortality, t. be a CO tinu'
Gus cbnin VI being, whetnor looked g.
from the s,nnduHint of the lower AMI
mails or Of human being; and the con-
iinuity Is no. OF vibrhuun alone, rs
was once su ypontd, bus OF sciual mat
er. From CAREFUL scieutiic compari'
son we are lel to the discovery Of the
law that this 100 principle
liugers In any Individual organism
only long enough to insure iiB own
perputuity, tho time varying rom a
rccond or two IN some microscopic
rghpistns, TO two hundred years Ia
tho elephant. This length OF life 10
thus found TO oo inverteIy according
20 the numbor aud frequency OF the
odepIinR. Length OF lie bea,s also a
defiuits relation TO the length OF the
period of CESSATION and infancy, though
It is net the came in every species.
MORAL CONCLUSIONS.
What, then, are the moral cOEciu-
Bions we mus draw from these facts?
they are directly opp sed to seliisn-
ness. Every msn IL the connecting
link between the past ana the future.
He has two parents, four 1randparenls,
eight greatgTaudl arents. sixteen
great great-grandparente, ana thus
going back LOCO years II may
he ehown thai be has TWEEN.
~ millions OF ancestors, whose
lives, by heredity are merged into
his own.
h is partiy-let us not soy wholly
what they have been. In tine utute Il
similar relationship remains to be
worked out He will transmit bis
characteristic to two ( or more) chill
dten let us say, Jour yrautchlIireui
eight great-grsDdchiidreD, etc., so that
In u thousand yesrs his posterity
at conservative estimate viii lie
twenty millions. VIII they be better
for his having been their father? Its
a momenious question.
We AFRO tho bearers Of the torch OF
life. What arc we doing 10 keep 1t
brightly burniuIP Are Wa consuming
1t ere it's time Oy burning 1t at botn
enui? lie 1t hckering, and has 1t
become uncerlAiu in our nsndi? IL 30
the whole world must suffer for
our sin aud neglect. The
moral OF such rt0 actions IL
that the individual Is nothing,
tie race everything. We have no
right to steal by selfish indulgence
that which is necessary to the gioFi.
Gus fruitiou Of the race.
ADOLESCENCE.
Iowa IN thn,atnra th. ANAL ia,g al
life, the suprpms law OF existence.
And time comes when love blossoms
10 the human race. 1t ia tins wheu
the seliishness OF prehistoric times
ceases to operRtr 10 tue child, ana the
aittuism OF higher life Rwakens d
the youth; whrn the cravings Of the
Individual give way to the Impulses
Of the race.
This Is the period Of adolescence, the
most glorious epoch in the lie OF man;
the period when there 10 q breaking ny
OF tue merely animal, and the IL.
iusiOn, the iuHAtutstion OF the divine.
This Is the time when the be, terment
OF the race heritage lie made, period
go rich In opportunity as TO ssionieh
the imagination; throwing open
Of the avenues to the soul
for race changes. These svnnues will
close agar CLOSE upon whatever has
been ndueu ~ tue Individual II q, be II
good or bad--snd 1t Will be transmitted
10 the next gen, ration.
WHAT an opportunity is here given
to him who will fulfill the duties he
owes 10 manhluu! How pallry In
comparison are tue illiSitimate pIeai-
ures which crafty the Individual at
tue expense o the rae ]
ADOLEsoENT FERMENT.
Adolescence covers period OF ten
years in our own couutry. IL begins
with puberty, and continues to
nubility. The longer II If, the greater
the opportunity Tor Advancement, the
graver tIe dangers OF abuee. In savage
races youth is passed in two or three
year,. Women bear children at 13 or
IA and are old and wriuBled at 80.
Length Of adolesCs nee Is also Que to
blood. Unmixed races like the Jews
and Gprma a hasten through aJole-
sCence, the period OF change, anu
settle INTO race htbits and Gust ms.
but In America where sbloOd Is much
mixed, adolescence Ia prolonged, and
lhe ierment OF youth-'he ability TO be
moulded by the influence Of principles
lis continued long into ADULT life. In
this feet lies the great hope OF the iu-
ture OF our race.
TIME TO BEAR CHILDREN.
Corosl, Russian scientist has. by
the com arisop OF hundreds of thou
sands OF caees, proved thst the beat
time to bear children lie, for the
woman, % TO rs yesrs OF age ana for
the man, so t. 40. Children bo-n long
before that time are not likely to
reach the tull maturity OF their powers
Cnildren born long inter that tune,
while not in danger themselves, are
likely TO produce immature offspring.
LAW OF LATENCY.
Exceptional race changes are likely to
occur on the male side OF the house.
Boys surprise us continually by their
Innovations; by their deveio pment OF
the remote and uDliks; girls seldom
chow gaps bstween What they are anu
what their parents were.
The law OF latenoy lie noted but I'M.
explained by science. 1t consists In
the unexpected breaking OUT OF tent
| enciss which Immediately becom
factors in civilization. All great gen.
uises illustrate this law. BY means
| OF the educational forces they set 60.
Ing, they influence the life OF the
| rRce.
HEREDITY VS.. EDUCATION.
D,t ,gtar al a,e,danta and all,