The weekly examiner., 1901-07-20
LESSONS IN NATURE.
WHAT MAN MIGHT LEARN FROM THE
 LOWER ORDERS OF CREATION.
In the Mad Scramble For Material Wealth Humanity Has Become De- based and Brutalized - Scientific Civilization Impossible.
Especial Correspondence.1

based and BrutaIized - Scientific Civilization Impossible.
 Especial Correspondence.1
 New York papers of June IS have l notified us that Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda protectorate, has returned to London after an absence of two years. He brings stories of Uganda, "a sec ton of Africa which has been depopu- lated by wars and Is now marvelously stocked with big game of all kinds, l as tame as if they were roaming in an English park. Even lions are so busy ! feeding themselves with what they need that they take no notice of the | approach of men. And there is no sport in killing any game, so peaceful ly all the wild species have learned | how to live there.'
 There is nothing wonderful in that incident. It corresponds with the ex- perience of all men who have first fn- vaded any solitude in which the so called brute creation had not yet learn ed how to fear man, the only being who can be a brute because the only l one who can choose between brutality
 
 l wretched settlements of wars, murder, destruction, to the boundless joys of peace, life and beauty.
 Some one has said, '"The artists work is finished when he draws his last breath" Perhaps most of us apply that sentence to our own life with that pc culiar infatuation that modern educa- tion seems to impart. Have we not really given the cold shoulder to that Christian humility, meekness, unwill- l ingness to show our merits, even if we have them, that alone give value to merit? In the old good times, bad
 enough anyhow, people had at least certain respect for the ideal in Ques- l tion, but in our days can we succeed in any line of material success if we try to l be meek? Have we time or inclination l for meekness or any respect for it? How can we in the midst of the most intensely materialistic progress that l the earth ever exhibited? Tn our hun. ! ger and thirst for wealth at any cost l and as rapidly as possible not even the artist finds much room anywhere, since | the grand ultimatum of all real art is l completion, perfection in some form of beauty appealing to the best and high est aspirations of the soul, the beauty | that initiates the precise scientific proc esSes of nature-processes which take l time as an indispensable element in all l that is worth doing. Modern progress ! is bent upon suppressing time, lacks ] taste for all that is not accomplished with great rapidity; hence the increas- ed unso1ved problems we evolve in our cyclonic modes of life, in our vortexlike aS ies. EzpeFfs Tn the disease of irF sanity tell US that most insane people are unable to be quiet except in the ebbing periods, when a certain degree of reason reasserts a certain form of l order in mental phenomena. That is ! not very fattering to the intense pres sure that presides over most of our present tendencies while neglecting all work in healthy social life, without which all is inartistic, incomplete. And why should not human develop ment rest on the same peaceful, rhym- ic, universal laws which in all direc- tions produce the greatest effects with the minimum expenditure of force while never in hurry, yet never lack ing time? Even the lowest animal forms endowed with great power re- spect those around, however insignif- cant in size and force for purposes of self defense, when no obstacles stand in the way to satisfy their nat l ural needs, as exhibited all over the planet and especially exemplified by the incident above mentioned. Through no other natural processes or laws could we have the boundless diversity of animal species perpetuated through centuries. There is nothing brutal or cruel in nature outside of man when he prefers to satisfy his lower instincts l rather than the higher, and it is in- variably from the supposed high types that humanity has suffered or been kept on the plane of eternal disturb ances, evolving the most repulsive de formities because of fundamental re- pudiations of the most important nat
 ural laws, laws of full development for all forms
 Let all men have what they need for their healthy growth, as nature fur nishes for all animal life, give them the freedom of Gods universe, grant them the full ownership of all their faculties, don't establish any restric tions but those indispensable to equal opportunities and full manhood for every human being, that each may grow in any given direction ac- cording to the bent of their own in- dividuality, since each comes with an especial taste for an especial useful function, don't force anybody to do what would suit somebody else for his own selfish purposes, and each man shall become an artist in his own oc- cupation through life, and each one shall work out his own best destinies while enabling everybody else to do the same. But, then, that requires an artistic progress, a scientific civiliza- ton, in accord with the scientific and iS4; i., dct nR xxrfi