Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1901-11-01

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not, Sancho Panza must visit his
cousin by daylight.
Fellowship
The merging of the individual in
terest into the collective interest is the
first real step toward a moral man.
hood, as it is towards an intellectual
and spiritual manhood, and this is a
step which can at least be mentally
taken by any man any hour of his life.
In the light of these truths it ap.
pears that there can be none but So
cial crimes, and none but a social
religion, and no thing can be called
good from the benefit OF which any
one human being is knowingly and
wilfully excluded.
admit the present ilnpossibility of
opening spiritual truth like this to
all men alike. But with time and
equality of condition all men will see
alike, for all the practical; that is all
the benevolent purposes of life. And
while the objection of the individualist
that individuals by heredity and
other causes are not equal and are
not alike; seems plausibly, it must be
remembered that the plausibility of
that objection depends upon the point
of contention being, equality for con-
tentiOn.
Now the equality that | am con-
sidering is not the equality for con-
tention; but an equality for living to.
gether agreeable and hopefully, and
for this kind of equality the most
downtrodden and unfortunate often
prove to be most agreeable surprises
all is experiment.
In the log house, by the camp fire,
crossing the desert, or on the ice foe,
the cultured selfish has found strong
rock and resting place in the calm
enduring trapper, the plain soldier
the camel driver, the Esquimaux In
the hospital lazaretto or the prison
a working man.
That men can have, and can choose
their own ideals is a fact. There is
that much of floor, therefore, left in
human nature for God to build upon,
and take it that the Divine Power
cannot find any dry footing on the
floor of nature that is only con-
scious of itself
This philosophy is the philosophy
of the contiguous, it is the philosophy
of the nearest thing, the nearest man,
the present moment; and though to
the mind OF egoism, which through
intellectual blight sees all phenomena
perverted, it appears altogether i'm
practicable, it is on the contrary alto
gether practicable and real, because
ego cannot see it.
Since we have the choice of our
ideals, what good natured man
would not in the end choose that
which certainly makes for a better
life for all, as well as ultimately and
immediately the best tor self? That
self l mean which is sufficiently en-
hghtened to make choice of its ideal
on the basis of good cause shown and
good reason given.
| offer no science but the science of
known duty. | have discovered no
truth but the truth discovered by
every babe in its cradle, restfulness
and confidence in those about me.
| give you only one thought and
say MAKE it into a manhood for the
world" OF itself it is but a thought;
worked out in the warp and woot of
even one days doing, it will speak for
itself. That it requires my pen to
utter it today, is because of the
plague of darkness that falls upon
egoism in all ages.
1t is not contended here that this
one great thought of fellowship is
wholly absent from the world. On the
contrary, its presence to some extent
is essential to the very rudest society
No vestige of civilization could mani
fest itself without 1t is the salt of all
cities and all states, and in proper
ton as it is entertained in any ma
ton. If saves that pot,a,, auI bnldS