The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-04-28

man like Hubbard is directing It in
the way Of making beautiful things.
But .et the many take il up and the
doctrine means the freest sensual in
depreciation Of the inscription over
the gate Of RabelaiS' Abbey Of Thele-
ma.
If we were all Hubbards. il we all
had those burning eyes, II We all had
that sanctitied simplicity of smile, il
we all were OF the aestheticO-ascetic
temperament, the Hubbard doctrine
would be good thing for the world.
But we are not all Hubbards. We
are not all seers. We are not all Of
those "whOSe ears, long closed to
earthly things. catch heavenly
sounds" We are not able to contain
ourselves within ourselves and to for
get the call of "the world, the flesh
and the devil in contemplation of
inner and outer visions. We are not
able to transform the actual with
beautiful illusions. We can't go too
strong on love and joy i'm our work,
for fear we may go wrong, as many Of
lover of his kind and vOtary of the
higher joys have gone. And so, while
we say that Mr.. Hubbard is a good
man and is doing good work at East
Aurora, and is following an ideal
which it were blasphemy to assail, we
may be permitted to doubt that the
many are as vet sane enough to ap-
proach the truth he teaches, without
danger to what We call their souls.
There is no one who can more high
ly approve of the work Mr.. Hubbard
has done at East Aurora than [ do.
None can better understand the as
piratiOns that have grown out of his
work-aspiratiOns dawless in the ab
Stract, aspirations that are part Of the
spiritual life of all men who look at
the world and think about it. But
the application Of those aspirations,
cOncretely and generally, would be
dangerous, involving as they do SUBJ
tie distinctions that only philOsO-
pliers like Mr.. Hubbard can make.
Mr.. Hubbard is doing good at East
Aurora. He is doing good in his
work." as distinct from some phases
of his doctrine" He is teaching the
value of intelligent effort, the worth
Uf kindness. the influence Of beauty,
the truth of doing in the best posi-
BILE way what is nearest the hand to
do. There can be no just fault find ,
ing with all this. But mix up this -,
practical, aesthetic pOlytechnicism
with psychisn, with unrestricted free
dom, with a5stractly asserted sancti-
by of naturaliSm. and the cOmbiua- :,
ton is moral and social dynamite.
OF course, the dOctrinal feature of ..
what we may call Hubbardism, is not
dangerous to audiences of inteliec I
jualS, like that which hung upon his l
words in this city last Friday night,
ust as the work he teaches his Roy
;rofJers to do at East Aurora is not :
dangerous to he doors thereof. The
LANCER lies in application Of his doc
,rine by the half-infOrmed. =
Wherefore, earnest, exalted, in G
vardly illumined. gentle and affec-
tomato as Mr. Hubbard may be, ne
would do we'll to put some curb upon
lis proclamation concerning the phil h
SOphy with which he supplements :,
lis work. He does not mean 70 do a
more directly than to put joy into 1
ur lives, to do this by making il
york pleasant, unrestrained express a
ion of individuality. That he has ;,
one at East Aurora. May he long y
ontinue so to do. But let him be- v
sare of an unqualified declaration Of Il
UGH doctrine, for we know to what l.
errors of life general, uDrestrained :
xpression Of individuality might U