Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-08

1911. HIS 10 q ldCI III nature ludL
has been mostly overlooked by our
materialist friends.
They see the war going on in the
lower forms of life, and as we our
selves are part of nature, they con-
clude that we, too, must evolve by
warning on each other. The law of
the survival of the fittest is a real
law, but is only met with in wave of
evolution that is sweeping down
toward individuality. as is the case
with all forms of life with which man
is now surrounded, at least on the
physical plane. This individualizing
force, as important as it is, is not left
to work alone, even in the first half
of evolution. While it is unques-
tionably the dominant force, and the
one most apparent and obvious at
that time. yet it always requires a.
least two forces to carry on the un-
folding of life and form. That other
force is altruistic. In the downward
arc of the evolutionary circle, there
is just enough of the altruistic or
Christ principle in force to keep the
selfish force from playing the devil
with the whole business, if | may use
the rough but accurate expression.
This altruistic principle is in evil
dence in all those animals and even
plants that herd, flock or cluster,
) coming together for better protec-
ton to the individual and for more
formidable offensive operations. The
: survival of fittest is sometimes Sc
cured by his own individual prowess,
but most generally by aid of the very
:, opposite principle of altruism by
; which he associates with his kind
E and gets and gives increasing help as
numb increase.
| An individual animal that has sur.
; vived his kind in single combat will
go down before herd of his own
; interiors.
OF course the altruism that obtains
5 among animals can only deserve small
praise i'll comparison with the reality
. as it would appear in all its beatihc
fullness as exemplitied by intelligent
conscious beings on the altruistic
; planes of being.
In the evolution of life on any globe
that which is going on at any one
{ time is but a repetition of what has
= been done before and what viii
> be done again. Take an example,
f class at one grade of school studies
, reading, spelling, writing, arithmeti tic
etc, and yet when promoted to 4
, higher grade still pursues the old
studies, among some other new ones.
: but this time these Old studies are
r gone into more thoroughly and pro.
, foundry.
This is exactly the plan nature
e. adopts Entities appear on globe
in their most universal aspect, pre-
coed toward the matchmaking point,
to the degree it is to be attained on
: that globe at that trial, and then
evolve thus much of individuality
| back toward divinity, and then after
a rest, beginning again at the new
; point of the universal. a little in adj
: vance of the previous beginning and
, again becoming inlividuaiized, a lit
= tie more thoroughly than was previ-
Now man is the highest being so far
as we are informed, that is evolving
by means of the physical conditions
provided by this earth, and it is said
by those who are in position to OBJ
serve accurately, that he has reached
and just passed the middle point in
the downward curve of the circle of
evolution.
He is now on the up grade, begin
ming to again unfold the universal in
himself; and so the law of progress
now for him is altruism, Is the main
force, with just enough of the self
principle to steady him and build into
himself as an individual the wisdom
t. be extracted from his altruistic eX-
perlenCes.
When the turning point is reached
in man it is found that he becomes
unsuccessfully involved in all sorts of
complications with his kind, wakes
poor as to the many, too rich as to the
} few. BY degrees the wisest ones, gen
orally the unnoticed, discover that
, there is something radically wrong
with the so-called wise sayings that
have been guides for act on for untold
-. ages. These wise ones see that es.
: pecially business maXms do not WORK
, out as they have been expected to OF
, as they used to, and by careful an
= alysis of their terms, and a better
! knowledge of the nature Of man es
: pecially his higher nature, all taker