The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-25

leaves the woruld but one substance.
MIND idealiSm}, or matter (materialism),
or substance that is neither. but sub
stantial ground for each. The content be-
ing the same, what advantage has one
name over another. If me refer 1t back
to monogenisis we are reduced to the
necessity of accepting Haeckel's view of
the generation of the Individual from
s - cen, We feel very much inclined
10 accept the term idealism as best suited
10 II and would gladly apply Byron's
coupiet addressed to the author of the
theory:
w hen Berkeley says there is no matter
Ii is no matter what Berkeley says
And what is pantheism? Schopenhauer,
who should be esteemed good authority
says: Pantheism is a misnomer; for the
II is simply courtly atheism" 1t makes
the atom or the cell God, according to
Buchner or Haeckel. According to Schel-
ing 1t Is absolute identity; the absolute.
the absolute Is primordial involution. the
World Is progressive evolution. With
tichte 1t makes God the moral order of
the world; with Prof. Powell it makes of
God the perfect conscience, now in pro-
ces of evolution. Hegel, who has given
the most perfect shape to pantheism. as
method with Seedlings results. But aft
er all the excessive verbiage of philosophy
is stopped away, you are confronted by
either either the oriental type. which loses the
which loses God in the world, but in
eilner case do you not lose personal
Goo, a loving father. being interested in
us, who knows our sorrows hears our
cries. answers our prayers, and shall wes
concede the doctrine or shall we say no,
that is not our idea of God? He is GER
tainly
AN OVERRIDING PROVIDENCE,
above all, beyond all, but through all and
in all. Right here and now in the course
OF events. in the familiar oUapciaS Of no
constituted order, in what our clumsy
phrase calls SECOND causes, in the least
thlngs and In the greatest that make up
the life of man, in the grand whole of
God.
Having now referred to the views offer
In conclusion, refer to views expressed
touching the human being itself. AS
teachers we are concerned with chill
that we must first determine by what
method We shall study the child, the
static or the genetic. The question
True TEACHERS have always, SO far as L
know. followed the genetic method The
so.cailed static method is thing Of
to divert attention and to raise a cloud.
Genetic psychology Is practically set
forth forth in the following from one of it's
others that l will refer to, and hundreds
that 1 cannot refer to, are not the eman-
atlons Of brains given to foolish asser-
Der, thoughtful men. The modern dis
coveries in science, and especially of
the fact that nature and man have
grown own from low beginnings in the scale
OF being to their present. stature by a
process called evolution, have changed
our view of the world and given new in
sights into, the nature and destiny Of
man, ana the purpose and process of his
education.
We have learned that man
IS THE FINAL PRODUCT
of all the ages, and the biologist tells us
that each individual begins his existence
IN IN the lower phase Of animal life, and
animal existence In his preparation for
the life of a human being
inere is an old doctrine Of the trans
migration of souls after death, through
the lower orders of animals back TO
man, as punishment for the sins of the
former Ire. Modern science makes man
LolloW this migration on the road to his
flrst realization of manhood. He comes
into the world at birth bearing with him
many OF the rudimentary organs of the
animals through whose forms he has
passed, and some of their mental char
4 4t Inc child begins, at birth. at
the tne lowest round of the ladder, to climb
INTO modern civilization. This ladder
reaches down to the beginning of human
institutional life. The child, at birth. is
poGIenualiy man, but really an animal"
teacher must practically consider, we find
it asserted as a scientific fact that "eaef
individual passes through every form of
amman ~ development, from nonad7: to
man, that from conception to birth he
passes through all forms of animal life.
and at birth enters upon the state of man
at at the plane OF lowest savage existence"
that he is unaffected by the heredity Of
MS immediate ancestry, or by his en-
Yironment until adolescence is attained. !"
Inc TEACHER is, therefore, confronted by
these alleged scientific facts with which
he is to make for himself a working
ihypothes1s for the study of genetic
psychology: -
(a) The child's body has been evolved
from the lower animal forms.
OBJ The child's mind has been evolved
from animals very much as his body has
been. -
Co The difference between the psvchic
processes of animals and children is one
degree andfanot of kind. Instinct and
PSYCHIC process mean the same thing
(d) What is known as mind thought.
soul or spirit is a result Of a flux of mol
eculeS.
(e) The mind or soul, by whatever
the material which gives 1t individuality
Will be fused into some other form Of
activity. perhaps without material or dis
tinct spiritual expression.
% The individual enters upon the
state of man, In all cases, upon the plane
of lowest savage existence.
am no prophet, but do not believe
that these things are true, or that either
OF them Is true, nor do 1 believe that
they form inseparable, constituent ele-
ments, Cor that either of them forms an
element in the doctrine of evolution, and
it seems incredible to me that the great
body of teachers will ever accent them
Against the claims Of science, If these
be the claims of science, we place hope,
INSPIRATION AND ASPIRATION.
whose language finds no audible express
sion, but it would have persisted long ago
if it were not in actual communication
with something that understands an
answer. Although we are part of a great
plan in which interdependence or essen
tlal unity is an inseparabie part, we like
to think of an individuality, conscious
and immortal. We feel that we cannot
accept the doctrine that all things tend
to the creation of a perfect soul uni
versa1 and inseparable like the spirit
of Cod" in which identity is lost, and
which holds no remembrance of, or re-
semblance to human form.
We do not like to accept the doctrine
that in our individual capacity we are
only contributing to a general result;
that in the long struggle from the ooze
and slime Of primordeal times, as race
chain of ascent, leaving but that as
race contribution "to the one Divine
event." but losing our Individuality And
finally, we believe that 1.-The one Divine
event towards which the whole creation
moves Is the restoration of the indi-
vidual soul of each human being to the
likeness of God in which 1t was original
ly created and by means of which it is
prepared for conscious Immortality