The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-03

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nificance. As yet these new force
have chiefly wrought physical and no
mental or moral changts.
where prejudice or fear existed they
have not much lessened either, They
have brought all the world face to face
but whether this action has tended i'm
medately to decrease human suffering
to decrease the probabilities of war, oil
to increase them is a question, o.
themselves they have not reformed (anc
probably will not) condition that has
existed from the time when man 1lrst
took up his struggle for eXistance. From
the beginning mans conflict with ma
ture, with wild beasts and with dis
ease was not so fierce as his conflict
with other men. Steam and electricity
have perhaps intensified that condition
Every step in human progress, every
gain in physical power, every improve
ment in moral outlook, every institu-
ton erected (each achieved at cost
Of untold sufferlng), has become In
time citadel to be battered down with
fresh loss and new suffering, in order
that better conditions, q wider moral
and more beneficient institutions might
come into being. No page of human
history is yet written which tells of
material progress without attendant
destruction of human life, or at best,
without setting man against man in
bitter feud sooner or later. Sings and
bows and arrows and knives have yield
ed to steel-clad ships and Mauser rifles,
but the fight goes on--indeed goes on to
n haltlua a
a radical change in these conditions
will not some day will not be brought
about is to despair of the future of the
human race. The conditions for that
change are probably close at hand We
are, however, still drunk with the glory
of the physical conquest of nature; we
are yet thrillink with the sense of pow
er that comes from thinking of the
earth as entirely within our oompre-
hension, of realizing that our knowl-
edge not only grips it in our palm, but
goes ont intelligently into the vast
space that surrounds it. This ecstacy
will pass; a soberer condition of mind
will follow We shall recognize finally
that all this is a means of an end only.
with the beginning of this condition
VI ilitAitt lIC pei lOti VI piOPilCtJ III llLG
Insurance will pass away the period Of
its more serious work will begin. That
work with relation to the material and
moral goverance Of the world will not
be unlike the unwelcome doctrine laid
down in spiritual matters 1000 years
ago. Then the idea that salvation was
not for a few chosen people, but for all
mankind, was so unwelcome that it
could only be adequately put down by
the scenes on Calvary. Life insurance
is about to pass out of that portion of
its history in which it has struggled
and pleaded. 1t too, has been pleading
for an unwelcome doctrine: the doc
trine that, in spite of race and relig-
lou hatreds, in spite of color, climate,
or the ambition of so-called statesmen,
man has no natural reason to hate his
fellow man; on the contrary, he has
community of interest with all other
men. This doctrine has not been well
come to the Vicious, to the Incorporate,
to the improvident. 1t has not been too
welcome TO those who try by appeals
to national pride to fan the fame of
bate against other men called foreign
ers'
Life insurance in its period of plead
ing has had enemies within, too, as
well as foes without The force of its
doctrine has not infrequently been
weakened by the action Of those of its |
household men who professed its faith,
but understood not it's doctrine: men !
who failed utterly to comprehend it's .
scope; men who desired a little world
n oil
ed at and criticised those who believe |
in q broader theory. So-called servants |
Of our faith have foretold disaster to
those who undertook to preach the Cos
pei of universal prudence; they have |
even appealed to the preiudices that
tend to make all men reactionaries
But against foes within and enemies
without life insurance has been spread |
ng over the earth like the coming of |
The light of a new day. 1t has gathered
is armies from beyond every sea- but
chiefly from wherever the Anglo Saxon
lwells. Life insurance to-day is the
very spirit of the Anglo-Saxon race;
is methods are masterful; it seeks to
meet and mingle with all men; it learns
ma ii teaches; but chiefly, it has an
tNS'i5 Ipl Niiltll II ENORMOUSLY ldDOTS. |
like the Anglo-Saxon race, life insur-
lace has not waited for the times to
ome right, 1t has forced the hand of
ime; IT has called into use the best
ability, the broadcast cour-
-ge, the best business method, it has
,roWn more and more insstant more
nd more militant, more and more |
dominant more and more successful
nd useful it has taught men how to
ink together not only the strength of |
Individuals but the unreasonable |
trength of generations, and in preach !
nS that gospel it has come in itself to
Illustrate the power which 1t taught | ,
zen to use. The very law which made
zen better when they insured their
YES has made life insurance mighty
nth the lapse of years. We have here :
otore thought almost exclusively of it's
loral and beneficent side; hereafter we :
hail think more of what we may call :
s physical side, of the enormous force
'hich it will be compelled whether it 7
'ould OF no) hereafter to exercise in
Ne affairs OF men"
SOME DOWN EAST HEALERS.
eatures of the Present Reign of I