Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-28
THE WOMAN, THE CHILD AND
THE STATE"
TRev. David Beaton.1

| Look at the same sources of informa
ton concerning crime. Do you go int
cur churches today to find the men
! No! If you want them you go 70 TIL
base ball park, the golf links or tn
| jatls. Think of the dead lift that tn
women have against this manly exam
| PIE. which stultiffes their lessons an
cemoralizes all the children's ideas Q
| personal honor and civic duty.
! Is it not true. then, to say that
woman has failed it is because man ha
| rot been her helper but her hinderer il
| this sacred work. And it is a work tina
| will never be dory> rightly until MAJ
and woman both engage in it'll
model fatherhood as we'll as the mode
motherhood of the state working for it
betterment. The man must not fore
upon the woman a low ideal by his ba'
example, nor poison the maturing
minds of the children emerging int,
maidenhood and youth by stultifyins
every lesson of purity and honor which
they learned at their rsother's knee.
FUTURE NEED NOT BE HIDDEN
Mr.. H. G. Wells. the scientist anc
Darwin, and dares to direct confiden
gaze upon q future still icons distant
delivered a lecture at the Royal Institu-
ton on Discovery of the Future" This
cid not mean an aerial flight or any
single development of science, but tbs
discovery of the future as whole
Along certain lines with certain linn
itations, he argued, n working knowl-
edge of the things of the future was
practicable and possible. AS during the
past century the amazing searchlight OF
Inference had been passed into the re-
nloter past, SO by seeking for operating
causes instead of for fossils the search
light of inference might be thrown into
the future. The man of science would
believe at last that events in A. D. 1000
were as fixed, settled and unchanged
bic as those of A. D. 1900, with the ex-
ception of the affairs OF man and his
children. 1t is as simple and sure to
work out the changing orbit of the
earth in the future until the tidal drag
hauls one unchanging face at last
toward the sun, as 1t is to work back to
its blazing, molten past.
1t might be argued that man, indi.
vidually and collectively. was an meal
culable factor, a new element opposing
the nature of the inquiry and stamping
1t as vain and hopeless, but Mr.. Wells
seemed to favor the idea that man, tho
complicating, did not alter the essential
nature of induction. He did not believe
in the Importance of the leading man,
and he confessed to belief that If by
q,
Caesar Napoleon, William the Con-
queror and other great individualities
had been changed at birth 1t would not
have produced any serious dislocation
of the course of destiny. Great men
were no more than images and symbols
and instruments taken at haphaZard by
the incessant, consistent forces behind
them. They were the pen nibs which
fate used in her writing, and the more
one was inclined to trust these forces
behind individuals the fore one could
believe in the possibility of a reasoned
view of the future that would
serve us in politics, morals, social con-
trivances and in thousand ways. A
deliberate direction of historical. eco
romic and social study toward the flu
reference to the future in moral and
religious discussion would be enor-
mously stimulating and profitable to
the intellectual life.
That man is not final is great and
fact in scientific discovery III
the future and the question: What is to
come after man? is the most persist
emily fascinating, insoluble question in
The world. But for the near future some
few general statements have grown
more certain. Twenty years ago it was
N irresponsible suggestion, but now it
s the common place of cabinet
minister's that our dense populations
we're in the opening phase of a process
VI differentiation.
Secondly, it was inevitable that the
mass of the white population of the
world would be forced in some way up
he scale of efficiency within two or
hree decades.
Thirdly, reasons had been collected
slowing that in the comparatively near
uture humanity would be definitely |
md consciously organizing itself into Ii
sreat world state and purge itself OF
much that is mean and bestial and
lreary in this world.
The lecturer asked, Why should
hings cease at man? No creatures
ived under changing conditions with
nut undergoing changes. Human So
iety, he said, was never static and
would presently cease in it's attempt to
70 static. Mr.. Wells declared:
I'VE are at the beginning of tie |
reatest change that humanity has ever
Undergone. There will be no shock as
here is no shock at a cloudy daybreak
We are creatures of twilight. but out
f our minds and the lineage of our
ainds will spring minds that will reach
onward fearlessly A day will come
ne day in the unending succession of
ays-when the beings now latent in
ur thoughts, hidden in our loins, shall
tand on this earth as one stands ont
footstool, and they shall laugh and
each out their hands among the stars
For the Fourth of july
he Iowa Central railway will sell ex-
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