The labor world., 1899-06-24
FUTURE STATE.
Is There Another Existence For the
Human Family.
By PAUL WILLIAMS.

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TN OCTOR, when L consider what a
failure life on this earth is with
many people am always exceed
ingly curious to know what we afe9to
have in the future. :
"see what a miserable record Il i
made by a large share Of the Popula-
tion. See the hundreds of thousa 1los ll
in the poorhouses. The millions thas 7
lust exist, but always hang on the q!
edge of the charity house. See the
iails and state prisons crowded with viii
neople who have missed the happiness
that should have been theirs in life.
See the army of bankrupts. who are
disappointed in acquiring the means N
for comfortable old age. See the null
:.itnde Of human beings that meet VIC VIC
lent deaths by murder, lightning
drowning, cyclones and suicide
..It seems a5misfo tune that any any of
these should have. been placed on this
earth. They came without any yoll-
ton Of their own, life has been full O
trouble, they have passed on. :lhey
salaye missed the purpose OF this eartn.
where is the compensation? ]? What q
the future q
..The question you ask Mr.. WILL "
iams,' 2 replied DIR. Penrose, is the ques-
ton Of questions. Whether are we We
going, what is the purpose OF life9 lie
In the consideration Of all this we
have to take very broad view We ,!l
have to imagine ourselves upon 2 g high
elevation and looking down upon this 6dls'
earth, as we would study any des de-
). part,nent Of animated nature
rue; but Doctor. how can we ac-
count, for SO many Of the human family
going wrong 2 &,
/ said, we must take q broad
/ view. Illsse fifteen billions q q
humans, supposed to he Il at present.
on this earth, ARE all the result of cir
s:cumstances over which they have had
no control. They had no choice 6 IN
coming. They are here The e.9produGt
of lower conditions before them.
..The lower orders come first We
evolve from the. lower to the higher
Every child is born with innate sci.
fishness to protect t5itseH tt 4is natur. U.
ally. a savage in the beginning. All
that to- which that child attains IN
after life is the result Of moral train
I ing. .sIi
eyes, Doctor. but why such great
deficiency in: mo.al training 3"
Because VIC are not wise enough
yet to train slightly Born selfish, and ING
lacking education we 60 wrong. an and 3
adj thissis part Of our primary train
ing. The child will tumble repeatedly
before it can walk. The fflict tons q
earth are but lessons. and when wy e
take the broad view that life .son, teartf
is but a very little period of the greal1'
etesnity, through which we have 6 6
/ pass we become reconciled. !"
.sOf course, Doctor, that is the philo
sophical view to take Of our existence
here, but how are we to know that
is any better over there r. !
.sThe first thing to be understood
is that every thing that shad to pc
This sounds SO jmpch ke4SfatalisH
that we are inclined ITO reject ths
Thought. But neyerth theless. this j:
true. You and I. Mr.. Williams. a, arg (
here today the result of pure cir
cumstances over which we have had nj
control. We had no voice assSto whei
we should he born. or where; Wha' ! =
should be the color of skin. wha1
should be our temperament or power
of our BRAIN E
seBut, Doctor, if we are the creature!
OF circumstances, where does free NOR
al agency come in??''
ST will leave you to answer tha
: when we consider a little further.
eve had no voice in the making
of ourselves. we had nothing to :dt
with the locating of this city, sor tn.
erection of this building. We have hat
nothing to do in the. making of ou
opinions. Remember opinions ar
Dmde for lis, not by us So here, w
are discussing the future, the ;resul
of circumstances that have forever eS
listed, over which we have had nj
control" .3iSs.
...We are to infer then, Doctor, tha
we are all just as good as we can Sb
under the circumstances? ?" he,
Certainly, Mr.. Williams, if every
thing had to be as it is no blame al
taches to any one e.. "a.
..Rut then, -Doct tor, why .punish?'
For the purpose of educating. Pal