The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-19
RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
The Great Progress of the World, Says
Or. Hall, Is That These Forces Are
Coming Together

Coming Together
Dr. Hall spoke yesterday morning on
tThe affections" and said in part: In
preceding lectures have showed how
pleasure and pain were the first sensa-
tons, and how fear and anger are as
ISOLATED directly with pain. Today 1
shall speak of the affections, which are
directly associated with pleasure.
AT the very beginning of the evoiu-
tionary series, we have the love of food.
This is a real affection. 1t is the only
affegtion vegetables have. At first, an
imais live to eat as we'll as. to live.
Primitive life seems to be so construct
ed that the world is food When we
know the food of an animal, we know
Its life history.
We are apt to think rather meanly of
the appetite but it's basal to all things
Almost every disorder shows itself first
IN the appetite. When disease comes,
the appetite becomes freaky. Nutri-
ton is the background of all life and
conditions, all Intellectual and physical
activities. A strong healthy appetite
is potent factor to any intellectual
| activity. A good appetite is the prime
condition of the school room Proper
food brings all animal life up to the TOP
of its possibilities. 1t quickens instinct
| and apperceptiop. A man is what he
eats. See what children in school
| have the most eager appetites, you
will find them to be the most intelligent
scholars. Everything is nutrition. The
| muscles and brain are digestive organs
A man who thinks and works lives on
the highest nutritive plan.
The second love is the love of prop
erty. 1t begins very low down. 1t be-
gins way down in the instinct to hoard
| and the boarding OF food is the first
| form. Nest building is really the root
| OF the desire for property, for shelter
The home and all institutions of so.
ciety are based on property. Savagery
is distinguished by the lack of property
| The desire to acquire property is lie.
| gltlmate one. Personal ownership is
stimulating. We take an interest
where we have investments. Untold
! centuries went to establish the idea OF
mine and yours.
Love takes another and a higher
| form. That begins in adolescence. in
sex and reproduction, which form the
highest things in life. Before that
stage 1t is self, to get, and as maturity
| approaches, self is subordinated and
the great passion is the passion for
sacrifice. The measure of love is what
you will give. up. We have a large
biological philosophy in the story OF
the origin of death There was NO
death in early life, what lived went on
to live. When primitive animals
reached the limit, they divided. Every
| thing that couldn't divide, died. AS
they divided there developed special or
gans. Gradually a complete body was
| developed with all the specialized or
gans. The cells that formed the diff
ferent organs were good for nothing
else, and they died because they could
| not divide.
In man we have the two elements
the reproductive organs that are i'm
mortal, and divide and divide and
| divide, and the body which is special
| lzed and dies. These reproductive cells
retain all conditions of the beginnings
OF life. They are physical parts of the
flrst life that was on earth. Every ami
NAL lives on the average just as long
as 1t can be useful to the next genera
! ton. AS life advances the young needs
| more and more care. The average life
! of the adult human after the period OF
greatest productivity is just as long as
the young needs the care. We are
nothing, the race is everything. We
are the vessels to bear the torch to the
next life. We are getting now clearer
! views about hereditary to this effect
that that education is only perfect
! When we have learned thing so well
that it can be transmitted to our chill
dren whom we may never even see.
| Every generation ought to transmit
something to the next. 1t isn't all that
| we merely continue the race, we must
| make it better. That is why marriage
comes later in life as intelligence in
| creases. We know that children of too
| young parents never mature while
| children of two old parents mature too
| soon.
We have the field of romantic love
! and when we touch that chord, we
| touch that which is of greatest inter-
est. 1t is true that love is God and
God is love. This love takes in love {
irradiations. The sex organs are but
| bases for numerous irradiations in
song, dancing, art of all sorts, what
naturalists call courtship of nature,
| All the great interests of the race CON
nected with this religion was nothing