The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-15

the avAianchei Bottled diSboiism ts less harmful
corked. Ciumsiness. when a bandit wears IT, Is
praise.
There Ia wido range for the fancy in these
metaphors. from the Fisherman's experience
with the Genie In the Arabian Nights to the
bandit tenors OF the operate stage. The reader
will gather, however. and with reason, that MIR.
Moore's view Of life is not cheerful The uni
verse;" no holds. lis not an ideal universe"
Still we cannot help that. and must make the
best OF 1t.
But VIC are here. useless and mysterious as II may
seem, a set of Incompatible Migrants. orphaned
here a dcrvshlike lump of something, in the
midst OF immcnsities so hard and arrogant that no
wall from wormlike larynxcB can aught avail
We are forbidden from other worlds 10y leagues OF
unatmospherod space. The earth is our mother.
our habitation and our tomb.
The universe is accountable for itself both for its
existence aud for its modes Of action. 1t is here
useless and ridiculous as may seem, and 1t probar
bly, has always been somewhere The belief that II
produced in an Uncomfortable antiquity out of
nothing whatever, by an architect with nothing to
work with but intangible fats, is pitiable,
it is comforting. IL we stop to think OF II. to
know that the universe has always been some
where, and most OF us will in all likelihood
feel no uneasineSs at its being here now. even
though that strikes Mr.. Moore as being useless
present conditions is TO him. however a great
advance from the dreadful gloom OF the past.
Only in tho atmosphere OF the stock yards
could the words and images for this picture be
found:
1t is estimated that the life process is now about
twenty millions of years old Its existence has been
one unbrokcn bacchanal Of blood. Aggregate has
preyed upon aggregate and species has dscimated
species. Tides of rresponsbes have swept over the
continents and thru the deeps; colllded, crap.
pied and oxterminated each other. What is hidden
in the horrible chasm between nonera and man
fancy will ever illume II is the mighty charnal of
creation. The skeletons Of two millions OF extermi
mated species Of living beings are there with all
their unimaginahc accompaniments-wars black.
nesses, frghtful ntsnglings, confessions mex
tInguishable nalignities. hell. Imagine If you can,
and you cannot, the amount OF reconsideration and
violence necessary, by the outright destruction age
after age of interiors to develop an organism OF
such hopeless structural monotony as the monad
to an animal as highly specialized as a hsh. Think
of what would DO necessary to lift life from It's
aquatic cradle ont upon land. to convert a nsh
breathing water and wearing nns and gills and
scales intoa quadruped with legs and lungs and
hair. Contemplate again what 1t would take 10
verta waddling nlarsupRl into q quasi-perpendic-
uiar anthropoid.
Our forefathers were troClodytes and wove their
lairs from jungle twigs The blood Of cannibals
boNIs hloHX our veins. ilNlllIatlOn, contrary 10
delusion. is not civilized. but tremendous.
Nevertheless. Mr.. Moore holds out hone. He
believes in progress. Dismal as the world is to-
day, II Is an improvement OH the beginning. We
are better than our troglodyte ancestors. and
II the "bacchanal OF blood keeps up for some
myriads OF years to come our remote postcrity
may be quite decent people. To nep on this
result he would. as it seems to us somewhat
iog counterbaiance the force OF egotism
by altruism and what he calls the gallant
chivalry Of the Golden Rule" and apply the
more scientific process which he calls Gu
phemsticaly revision and surgery"
Beings who come into tho world as we have come
into the world. and millions after us will come
into the world, NAL tempered and awry. need moro
than a somewhat assiduous decentralization. They
need reri'on. They need LIBERALIZATION. but moro
than decentralization they need surgery.
Revision of character will be q much more tangible
and scientific thing when the physiology Of psy-
choogy becomes more than controverted ooniec-
ture There has been no attempt. no methodical at
tempt, TO amend character thru physiological and
neural violence: and about all we know about the
possibilities of such surgery consists of glimpses
caught on occasions Of casualty.
While we gladly concede the possibility OF
benefit to the revision OF character should the
contingency for which Mr.. Moore hopes become
true. we can hardly accept the statement in
the last sentences Milder methods Of training
youth may, OF course. prevail about Chicago.
but in the East and in the Old World the at
tempt to amend character by physiological
violence has been both methodica and vigor-
Gus. 1t used to be dorsal. aural. manual or
otherwise anatomical as the corrcctors fancy
chose and as we recolect it was neural, too.
Mr.. Moore. however. may have such instances
in mind when he speaks of " occasions OF casu-
ali - Wp Uiya his IaNnifion nf tina in
dvdual in spite of an error in spelling:
An individual living being in his individual devel.
opment is an analogue OF the race. The individual
career of & human form from the unicellular en-
bryo TO maturity is an epiome OF tho norphological
pilgrimage from Anuba to mammal. This is true
of both physiea! aud psychical development
Analogue OF course should read analog."
for Mr.. Moore writes thru. tho and program
Mr.. Moore's conclusion we leave to phos-
ophers to unravel and to our readers to puzzle
over. Tho prophet is assured
that an accomplished and sensitized attention is
the all. essential TO the achievement OF psychical
amendment of neural and Psychological alteration.
In the New Age which We provision and approach.
among the marvels to amaze our clumsy contempla.
tons will be tho miracles Of cerebral surgery, the
physics Of the humors the science OF the physiology
| Of consciousness.
Chicago. it will be seen. has now brought
| forth a philosophy OF its own, a dark and
| gloomy philosophy, II Is true. yet one not des-
ttute OF hope. but redoent OF the soil and
worthy to stand with Chicago economics. as
thetics and light literature.
| There is much timely. practical information
to be found in n little book by Capt. Davis Dali
| ton called How to Swim with the subtitle.
| A Practical Treatise on the Art OF Natation.
| together with Instruction as to the Best Meth
| DDS OF Saving Persons Imperilled in the Water.
| and OF demonstrating Those Apparently
| Drowned" (G. T. Putnams Sons). The direc-
| tions are so clear and simple that If swimming
could possibly be learned from a book 1t could
| from this one. As 1t ia. the instructions will be
helpful to any one who is learning and to many
| who think they can swim as well. The author
ia in no way too emphatic in urging the neces-
| sty OF acquiring an accomplishment so useful
and SO easily acquired. He says Justly: Every
| healthy person. man or woman. can learn
and ought TO learn. to keep afloat In the
water: most men and large proportion Of