Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-02-25

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uses so expanding, and its manage
mcnt 50 intelligent in the interests Of
its owners, that it has become, on the
part OF the people, an unmanageable
power. The human mind stands be
Wildercd in the presence OF its own
creation. The time will come never
theless, when human intelligence Will
rise to the mastery over property, and
define the relations Of the state TO the
property it protects, as well as the
Obligations and the limits Ofthc rights
Of it's owners. Thainterests Of society
are paramount to individual interests
and the two must be brought INTO Just
and harmonious relations.
A mere property career is not the
final destiny Of mankind Ifprogress
is to be the law of the future as it has
been Of the past the time which has
past away since civilization began is
but 4 fragment Of the ages vet to
come, the dissolution of society bids
fair to become the termination Of
career Of which property IS the end
and aim; because such a career con-
tains the clements of self distraction.
DemOcracyin government, brotherhood
IN society equai1ty III right2 and PRIV
lleges, and universal educauoh, lore
shadow the next higher plain So
Getty to which experience, intelligence
and knowledge are steadily tending.
Il will be a revival, in a higEcrform, of
the liberty equality and fraternity
OF the ancient gcntes, some OF the
DYirCiDire ard some Of re rnsrjte
OF the &toTtl OF the l0ea q
property ~ the i'uinan MIND hayenoW
been presented although the @a'Btct
has been m3dcq u2tciy treated lts ttn-
rCrtanue al least mas bCen shown,
Wlth one Pfu1Hie Oh intelligence ana
physical form, ~ virtue oi a common
origin, theresnils Of human experience
have been substantially the same in
all times and areas IN The same clin!-
Ii'I status III us powers NlIi-n liS'i1
TOW UNITS OF N.''l4lIoli' so~h' '"o'''
St''IluaiuS HIN''illDiy tIe 7'".N'
It's operations, consequently have
been uniform through all the stages
OF human progress, no argument Tor
the unity Of origin Of manklnt can be
made which, in its nature, is more sa-
tislactory. A common principle Of in
telhgence meets us in the savage, n
the barbarian and N civilized m@n {
was in virtue OF this that mankind
were able to produce in similar con1i-
tons the same implements and ut>n-
sis the same inventions and to devc-
lOpc similarirstitutionS from thes same
original germs 81 thought. There is
something grondiy impressive iii a
principle when mas wrought oout ciN'-
n%alioh 3E aS.i"uouS appHV;ltlohS
rom Snali peGImll3Si nom the arrow
heaq W!llch expresses Ile lhou@l. III
tne prah OF a savage 10 the sIaCililG
OF Iron ore WlhCh rcpieSentS lHe I,Eiier
iliteihSeIce OF Ihe parpar1al' and nm
any 70 the runway t'ain III hoIloi,
Which may De calIed the triumph OF
civilization.
1t must be regarded as a marvellous
fact that a portion OF mankind five
thousand years ago, less or more at
tanned to civilization. In strlctness
but two families, the Semitic and the
Aryan, accomphshed the work through
unassisted self development. The AIRY
neutrality-suspicious. the control stream
of human progress, because 1t prOdu-
ced the highest type OF mankind and
because it has proved its intrinsic
superiority y%radCally assuming the
control OF The earth. Md yet civiliza-
ton must he regarded rs an accident
of circumstances, it's attainment at