The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-15


 drop, any knee bend?
 The rather, if he should claim privi
 lege, would not some countryman cal him to order for violation of parliamen
 tary rule, and, if so, why else than be cause each New Englander felt himself every inch king, an emperor's equal?
 Industrialism has already made mer royal and kingly, only religion aims higher as it seeks to make them divine What has militaryism to offer in com.
 parison?
 Men can see there social, political, le-
 gal and industrial roots, back in the
 clan, in the worrior-priest-k king, ir
 magma charta and the common law, in flint axes and arrow heads.
 And with more or less completeness they can trace the long, hard struggle from then to now, and comparing the then with the now, they can see that they cannot afford to go back even a century
 Civil liberty, then. is worth what it cost; industrialism is incomparably higher than militaryism, as the hero firemans act in rushing into burning building to save a baby is higher than the Northman's act in throwing one up to catch it on his spear; and the past has nothing to offer to be compared with the fortune of the present. Our industrial democracy has cost too much, and is worth too much, to throw
 any part of it away; the past is worth too little for retrogression. If expan- sion means militaryism, despotlsm, re- trogression, then the United States may well shrink from paying the price for the whistle.
 But does it?
 There's power that shapes our ends,
 rough hew them how we may"
 pr. Burchard, some years after his alliteration, remarked that he knew not but that the Creator used him for &C., complaining the very reverse of that | which he himself intended | Our great and good president, of whom Governor Altgelt remarked He is man of one idea, and that idea wrong" had everybody in a state of nervous prostration until tEs Spaniards the Cu- bans or Providence blew up the Maine Then we declared war. That sacrifice was necessary, not to prompt this great
 
 of starving and dying women and chl- dren, and to fight her out of this hemis- phere, but to move our chief magistrate.
 Our hesitation over the Philippines, again, was met at the opportune mo- ment by Burchard like indiscretion of the Filipincs, and we then took possess sion on the coast of Asia.
 Final cause covers not only single events, but grfat combinations of events, to the length, depths and breadth of a science and philosophy of history
 Ca1l it God, as does the savage every thing that he don't understand, or as does the circuit preacher so much that he claims to know: call it an unknown power, as modestly does the modern sci enlist and philosopher; call it infinite substance, the cosmic egg. mind in na- ture, or, best of all the final cause in things; there is something behind the scenes or in them that bends every thing to intelligent purpose.
 If it be objected that two data are too few on which to found an argument from final cause, let it be replied that the two data were all that were re- quired to produce the Americo-Spanish war and to place the stars and stripes on the coast of Asia.
 Srace and time are intelligent enough to contain within themselves the mathe- nautical properties, the recounting of a few of which made Sir Isaac Newton fa- nous.
 Every kind of matter knows enough | of mathematics to crystalize in some kind of geometric system, and the math- ematics constitutional to a water wave thrown up by steamboat's prov is ab- struse and high.
 On the other hand, there Is sufficient of purpose in natures intelligence to work out in detail and carry through to such thing as the nebular hypothesis.
 Again the same thing is seen in the and purpose that took a primordal germ cell and drove it through all the highways and hedges of and animal life, and finally out of it such creature as man, with his brain, with his thinking, will Ing, loving of all that is good beautiful and true.
 The great Darwin was great because he discovered evolution, brought it to -he consciousness of men; nature em- bodied it. The fluxes of nature fall into intelligent and purposlve configurations, both contemporaneous and successive, IS inevitably and as naturally as water lows down hil It is their nature to, md final cause is as intrinsic, as much lature's warp and wool, as gravity. Perhaps we have enjoyed our demo- ,ratic industriaism as long and as sel- lshly as is good for us. Possibly we are lbout to be called upon to bring our fight from under our bushel and to hold t up to enlighten the world. Perhaps ve really do live in a world with others, nd have international relations and uties.
 To throw down our industrial and democratic glove right on the coast of Asia, where the international pot boils , he hardest, and to insist right there on ust simply justice and right, may per- q aps, in the long run, do the world 1ore good than us harm. Perhaps the brilliant victory of Commodore Dewey neant something beside fireworks after II. q If an intelligence that mayhap has in : 1ind millions of worlds that passed our ! tage of development millions of years go wishes the United States of Ameri- q to expand for the worlds sake and its wn then it may be 1t can be accom- lished for purpose, and in q way that .1,,r ,,s, l,