The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-19

ly becoming to any being to act ac-
cOrd1ng to it's nature, and is evidently
unbecoming to being to adopt line
of action suitable only to being of an
inferior nature 1T is unbecoming to
maneto act the child, it is unbecoming
to a soldier to act the coward, it is I'M
becoming to a rational being to act
the beast. Man is a compound of two
natures, rational and sensitive, Supe-
rior and inferior. That the superior
should control the inferior is evidently
the order intended by the Creator.
When the inferior enslaves the supe-
rtOr, when the sensitive enSlaVeS the
rational, when the animal ensIaves the
man, the right order of things, the d.
vinelyo established order the objective
moral order is reversed. There must be
for man an objective moral order which
says "be man." a a
Civil law cannot be the fundamental
standard of moral good" Civil law
does not pretend to regulate except
some external actions of citizens. The
fundamental standard of morality
must regulate not only external, but
also internal, action. The man who has
merely intended to murder his friend is
already a murderer at heart. If civil
law be the fundamental standard Of
moral good, whatever is demanded by
civil law is good what lis prohibited
by civil law is evil. There cannot be
any such thing as unjust, Ubiquitous
civil legislation. No civil legislation
can claim for itself relative advance
ment. Every national or tribal law is
good; one national law is as good as
another; the words tyranny" and
"barbarity'' should be removed from
our vocabularies. The Kaffir and the
Hottentot has the same claim to civ
ilization as has the American.
Individual pain or agony does not
count for anything when the material
istic monster majority demands sat-
isfaction. The greatest materialistic
happiness of the greatest number is a
monster more horrible than any hun
dred- headed hydra. If egoistic mater
iaIistic satisfaction be the measure of
human conduct, why not steal the
money one needs? Why not murder the
man who stands in the way of our
ambitions? Why respect women? Why
respect the helpless girl? Why not
steal, murder and wallow in sensual
pleasure? Why not become moral,
mental and physical wrecks? Why not
the human race kill itself off and make
way for it's nobler companions, the
ordinary lower animals?
"'The primary standards of moral
good are the natural and revealed
moral laws Men are the creatures of
God. Men have been created for pur-
pose. This purpose is higher than is
the reason for which the lower animals
have been created. The life of an ami
NAL does not lead to human destiny,
but the life that is regulated by the
natural moral law leads to natural
human destiny, natural human happi-
ness. God has called some men to SUI
pernaturaI happiness. The way which
leads to this happiness is the way
marked out by the revealed moral
law. The natural moral law is promul-
gated by the voice of conscience; the
revealed moral law has been promul-
| gated by our Saviour and his apostles.
The life that conforms to moral law is
a good life; the life that lacks con-
formity to moral law is a wasted life.
LOOK around this habitable world, how
few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pur-
Sue!''