The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-04

Nv lint some h0lNl0-
uais' they rise above their CONTENDER
aries, they have run more swiftly i'm the
pain OF truth than their companions
,ney are among Others, but not OF them.
tney nave gotten a clearer vision of
truth they breathe a purer atmosphere.
eney are inspired by higher and nobler
aims. And where the advanced ma
tons are will soon be the abode Of the
more backward ones, for.
There Is n far off divine event
10 Wnicn the whole creation moves >"
al men are yet 10 become perfect.
me race will finally become all that its
posslolIltles warrant. History abund-
antly demonstrates that men have adj
vance, toward a higher type of man
noou. Men rave higher and nobler as
plratlons, their conditions are better.
IndiVlduals are more fully developed.
the race is more brotherlike. Laws.
INSTITUTIONS and prospects are better.
Ihat the race will become perfect the
lnerfant laws of science assuredly man.
nest. Scientists n philosophers are
agreed that mankind has moved up-
ward, and Ii is a law of the universe
that an object moving in a certain d.
rection will so continue forever unless
hlndered by some other object. Rev
eiation assures us that there will be a
ne" eartn wherein dwelleth righteous
ness, that the new Jerusalem will come
down out of heaven. When Jesus said.
be ye therefore perfect as your Faith
er which Is in heaven is perfect" He
was speaking to men and Of men on the
earth and of the earth. A higher type
or has not been attained,
largely because men have refused to
lay hoid or those laws that bring man.
hood to men.
Our chief concern thus far has been
for food and raiment The majority
OF men give more attention to the pro-
curing of food for the mouth and cloth
ing Tor the limbs than to the develop
ment OF MIND and soul. This may be
a hard necessity, but still the truth
remains that the higher is a slave to
the lower. that the lower, the less.
blesses the higher, while the ivine ar
rangement, hence the natural ans
ment, Is the inverse. Can we definitely
determine the lines along which men are
10 develop TO attain unto a perfect end2
Men have not learned because they
would not. Men are not better be-
cause they will not b. better. There
has been an ability I'm man with
out a corresponding opportunity.
Things have not been made to misfit.
He who fails to see origin. duty and
destiny in all things is shallow minded.
The m~isanthrope is a subject Of pity.
The atheist and inidel are fools. Law
is concrete, and the same one runs
throughout the universe. The laws
governing the natural world are to be
found no less in man. In humanity
there are two distinct principles. the
one constraining man TO become an in
dividual, the other seeking to organize
him into society. No man can get away
from society any more than from self.
Neither must he sacrifice either for the
other Humboldt's great work was to
show, and did show. that there was lin
! ifilgG niNarEifp i'm nat.ra va ,,al-, IN
there was a mighty law OF unity. Above
gravitation. adhesion, cohesion and the
multitude or forces that are at work i'm
nature is the mighty force that makes
n of all. 1t is one in many. 1t is
unity and variety. 1t is unity in variety.
Isn't the universe a variety of forces,
yet isn't IL one? And man is no less
such. Humanity consists of a multi
tude of individuals. 1t will he perfect
only when the individual is developed
and society is united. That nation.
therefore. hat has most nearly applied
these principles should claim most of
our attention. for we learn from those
who have learned. We get from those
who have, n we are led by those in
advance.
That England and America stand far
in advance OF other nations in their APP
plication and absorption of the aforesaid
principles should be to US a happy
thought, and to others a helpful lesson.
No other nations ave attained unto
the Simultaneous application Of these
basic principles Of the race. The civ
ilization Of ancient times imbibed one,
but never both. Egypt and Assyria
were nations of well organized society,
but the individual was totally sub
merged. China remains as an ancient
relic OF this principle. Her society has
been so completely developed and or
ganiZed that years are yet to be merged
into centuries before her stubborn spell
is broken. But what has China done
for the world! What is she doing for
herself! What Is she doing for the
individual! What individual China
man is a developed or a happy man!
In all the weary centuries OF China's
existence she has not produced an in
dividual who could lay claim to real
greatness. unless possibly we except
Confucius. She has added nothing to
science, literature, art. sculpture or
philosophy. She considers human life
Of little value, brushes out individual
aspirations. hopes and desires. China
is the most conspicuous example of all
time of a nations failure to develop by
giving attention to but one phase OF
human nature, the social Characters
tic. while ancient Greece is perhaps the
most noteworthy example of the fu-
tility Of purely individual effort. No.
people ever gave less attention to uni
flying and developing society and more
TO the developing of the Individual than
did Greece. She had no organized so
ciety. Her period of existence was
necessarily brief. but wondrously bril-
liant. In no time or place has the
individual been so marvelously devel-
oped. Greece is the birthplace of his
tory, philosophy. science. literature and
art. She produced individuals in al
most every line of thought that have
not been excelled even yet. The aver
age Greek, in the days of Grecian glory,
was a more competent critic of the pro-
duction Of mind and and than our con-
ceded critics. Her intellectual acumen
and greatness. a result OF her marvel
Gus individual development, is beyond
our comprehension. There were in
Athens contemporaneous with Pericles
not less than 25 characters of renown.
rrnctara In orarN line Of infalIacfnaHfN