The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-20
NUMBER 46.

Snlhc III DIlHSIuS lOEGH JHe Iru1US OF
the earth. So believe that none of
us bring forth our best when all is
sunshine. As the glare and glory of a
blazing sun cause the desert, so per-
feet ease of life develops desert men
and women, who make the counter
part OF the wasted miles of Sahara, in
the wasted years oftheir lives ardently
spent for self and therefore hostile to
every other human being l must
believe this or else regard the Creator
as a mere teaser of men.
| believe that the selfishness of hu-
man beings is more talked about than
real. Even among the poor-and that
includes most of us-there is so much
unselfish helping of one another, little
doles of kindness given with freehand
out ofalmost empty wallets, that one
is compelled to believe that the exam
pie of the majority of us will finally
become the guide of the world As
Sir Edwin Arnold says: 'All the poor
are piteous to the poor so as long as
the poor last pity will last, and when
the poor and grief strained cease, pity
will no longer be needed
believe that though savagery and
gEOssness lurk in the breasts of all of
us, there is an increasing control of
the hereditary inner savage, and that
the general orderliness of daily life
proclaim this truth. Toprove it, run
over the things in your mind the
things your impulses would drive you
toward; and then see how your hest
fancy is confirmed into active enmity
to those feelings by your knowledge
of the standard society-made up of
units like yOurself-expects of you.
10 see what we were a few centuries
ago, one might go to the natives of
South Africa. According to the word
OF mlssionary-bishop, they are so
unused to control by reason of centu-
ries lacking in it, that at present it is
impossible for the Roman Catholic
church to ordain native priests there.
So foreign to their thought is any de-
sire for self-conquest on behalf of
others that celibacy is an absolute
bar against them. But under our
civilization when there is reason for
restraint, both men and women pass
happy lives without floating away on
the waves of passion.
| believe that when we rise from the
first keen feeling of our own littleness
after education has opened our eyes,
we are driven to fuller understand
ing of what living really means; that
it leads us to look around for the same
unity that pervades the universe,
wherein each body in the heavens
moves with apparent independence
and yet all are moving together in
one vast progress through space. |
believe this unity of the human race
will some day be more than mere
glittering dream, actual fact,
with only here and there an erratic
creature moving like a comet across
the path of others. l believe that
pessimism regarding Education arises
from wrenching it out of it's proper
sphere. Rightly used it gives us larger
views. 1t makes life more varied,
fuller and more interesting. fit does
not do this, it is because we have
loaded ourselves down with it's peb-
bles instead of it's rubies, and found
darkness where brightness alone
should be.
believe that the shortness of life
just serves to show us that the race
is more important than the Individual
and that therefore the test of a valued
life will some day come to be-not how
much forself was gatheredand scraped
together, but how much service was
done to repay something to the race
for the pleasures and opportunities
that are our heritages as members of
one great human family.
believe the world is thrilling to a
new century of new opportunities,
wherein better men than ourselves
shall hold sway, but in whose pro-
gress the feeblest of us shall have a
part, if we live our little lives to their
| fullest.
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