The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-07
PRESENT DAY THOUGHTS.
BY G. Grosvenor Dave.

We speak and think of this century
as one whose progress exceeds the
progress of all the others put togeth-
er. Wonderful things have been done
in conquering the realm of nature.
The intellect Of man has brought the
ends of the earth into nearly instan-
taneous touch with one another.
Time and space are now SO far annihi-
lated that to live five thousand miles
apart is no greater a bar to commune
cation than to have lived five miles
apart in the olden days. No language
can be too extravagant in recording
the doings of the century.
The world of morals and of religion
has shared in the upheaval. The lot
of Woman has 50 far changed that COM
pared with her sister of one hundred
years ago we do we'll to call the mod
ern woman THE New Woman" How
ever, as in all major points the inter-
ests 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 will endeavor to sketch his
present and possible characteristics.
First, therefore, let us consider.
The New Man"-as a boy Born
of woman, just like all other genera
tons of man-children, his mother
proves to be an open-air woman, with
an open mind-one who has not hest
I 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.
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The man-chiid 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 UNDER
stands, of influences that extend back
for generations 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 a thing to be studied
for his own sake, in order that from
his tendencies as they show upon the
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-
vironment shall mold 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
ture be warped and injured. He is a
living protest against the old bullet
mold, method of education, where poor
little creatures melted in the fierce
crucible of ignorant and unsympa-
thetic training-have been forced into
predestined shape of mind and of at
tainment--so that they should think
alike, speak alike, read alike and
come to like shortness of stature.
when measured up against what they
might have been.
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AS sure as the rlSlnR OF the sun
each new man as boy-if righteously
outside the walls of feeble minded
institution-will declare the bent OF
his power before he is II years of age,
and his blessed mother, with her eyes
wide open toward the shining of
her own son, will treasure these
things in her heart" and thus see to 1t
that no preacher of righteousness is
kept STOPPING over mortices and ten