The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-07-14
Present Day Thoughts.


y We speak aud think of this centur
J. as one whose progress exceeds III
progress Of all the others put togethe
= Wonderful things have been done /
conquerng the realm Of nature. TIL
intellect Of man has brought the end
Of the earth into nearly instantaneou
touch with one another. Time an,
space are now so far annihlated tina
Ia live five thousand miles apart is M
2 greater bar to communication thar
to have lived five miles apart in tn,
olden days. No language can be to,
> eXtravagant in recording the doings o
the century.
The world Of morals and Of religion
has shared in the upheaval. One hun.
dred years ago we did well to call the
modern woman "The New Woman. q
However, as in all major points the in
terests Of man and woman are alike,
there can be no "New Woman" with
out at least a resulting outline Of "The
New Man" During the coming weeks
of the summer, therefore, this column
VIII endeavor to sketch his present and
possible characteristics. First. there
fore, let us consider:
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The "New Manu-as a bow. Born
of a woman, just like all other genera
tions Of men-children, his mother
proves to be an open-air woman, with
an open mind-one who has not hest
tated to dip before marriage into the
wonders Of biology-one who under
stands, therefore, the combined power
Of heredity and Of environment, and
has chosen her husband accordingly.
The man-chid pressed to her bosom
Is not only beloved and interesting
because he represents in one the union
Of two who have deliberately called
him into being, but also because he is
made up, as she fully understands. of
influences that extend back for genera
tons on both sides. She sees in him
therefore an individuality made up of
influences that can work either for or
against his success. Her child becomes |
thing To be studied for his own sake
in order that from his tendencies as
they show upon the surface of his
almost transparent nature she may
learn what she has to deal with, what
to develop, what to curb, so that his
career may be all that is possible.
The New Man" as a boy, is the re-
suit Of love and intelligence applied
from earliest days onward, so that en-
shall mould inherited i'm
pulses and inherited impulses be
placed in the right environment. He
lives in an age when we understand
that each human being is different
from every other human being, and
must be treated differently or his ma
lure be warped and injured. He is
living protest against the old bullet
mold method Of education, where Door
little creatures melted in the fierce
'rucible of ignorant and unsympa- Z
hetic training-have been forced into +
'redestined shape Of mind and of at
that they should think /
like, speak alike, read alike, and come a
o a like shortness Of stature, when I
measured up against what they might r
AVE been. J
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As sure as the rising of the sun. each v
lew man as a boy-if righteously out :
ide the walls Of a feebe-minded in O
declare the bent of his n
ower before he is twelve years of age, Il
nd his blessed mother, with her eyes }
Tide open towards the shining of her
wn son, will treasure these things i'm
er heartn and thus see to it that no =
reacher Of righteousness is kept stoOp- r
X over mortices and lemons until
lirty. The child of her loye, at the
anne time the child of her intellect,
nall be safe guarded from the unin-
'ntional cruelty that has in the past
our race for ed so many square
atures, with pain, with anguish and g,
18th protest into circular surroundings. !.
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The new man rs a boy, shall not be
reed into precociOusness just to secure Y
he applause Of fool visitors, but he =,
lall be developed rationally-slowly,
necessary-justas one would develope G
crude landscape from the wild tangle r,
its original state. This is not done -
2 reducing it all to one dead level
1t by retaining in large measure the 4
iginal outlines Of the land, yet pr UNI -
z here little, stimulating there a =,
tie and expecting from the bleak
ghland never the same as from the 10
arm protected valley. g.
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The new man as boy is here already
the thousands of homes where moth in
s live who are something more than in
achines for human reproduction. r.