Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-10
ADVANTAGE OF HEREDlTY
Birth, Health and Sound Conscience
Factors in Worldly Advancement.
INTEGRITY AS A PAYER.

Waste and Wealth" is the topic on
which Rev. X. F. Coyle preached in
Central Presbyterian church. Denver.
the other Sunday, from the text John
vi, II: Gather up the fragments
that remain, that nothing be lost" He
said in part:
The question of waste and loss is one
That meets us at almost every turn of
life. Nine-tenths of the heat produced
by the consumption of fuel passes out
OF the chimney. A large proportion of
the power generated by the dynamo
goes off into earth and air. A vast
deal of the ore dug from the mine is
thrown out upon the dump heap. In
mill and workshop there are selvage
and scraps n remnants that are
thrown upon the refuse and garbage
pile. Much of what the bread-winner
brings In by honest toll, the eXtrava-
CANT cook casts into the waste barrel.
In many a community several
churches are struggling and wasting
the Lords money, where one could do
all the work. Let it suffice to consider
som of the sources from which the
wealth of society comes and by wealth
is not meant money values, or dollars
and cents, or anything of a material
sort, except as this is the product OF
wealth and character. The wealth of
society is in its manhood and oma
hood; in its thought and hopes and
aspirations: in its righteousness and
love of truth; in its aims and ideals.
Advantage of HereoIty.
There is first the racial element. It
is wonderful how much power of brain
and Drawn comes into society along
the lines of heredity. To have an
Anglo-SaXon ancestry behind us is
something for which we cannot be too
thankful. The ons and daughters of
the tropics are out of the race. Their
brains are sleepy, their muscles fiabby,
their blood thin; their lives dreamy
and destitute of c%onquering ambitions.
Give them their balmy skies; their
banana and cocoanut groves: their
abundance Of fish and fruit, and they
are contented. Not so with those of
northern birth and blood. They must
be going, reaching out, extending their
borders, making ~conquests. Send the
Anglo-SaXon where you will and he
goes to the front at a bound.
When the Suez canal was being con-
structed it was found that ole laborer
of Teutonic blood was worth two and
one-half Egyptians, and | I'M told that
as a workman, n Anglo-SaxCn is
worth about three Indians. Thus blood
counts. 1t makes wealth and ii pro-
duces poverty, If the oak is strong;
if u of it come timbers that in a
ships side can bear the shock Of the
waves, it is because it has sprung from
a stock that has grappled with the
storms OF a thousand winters. Many
children are damned into life: they
enter IT as paupers; like the waste bar
rel in the alley, they are roceptacles
into which their ancestors have poured
all sorts of low thoughts and groveling
instincts, and it is these that corrupt
and im~poverish society. They are to
be pitled.
Health and Mental Advancement.
Again, perhaps we do not consider.
as much as We ought, how much so
ciety is enriched by strength of body.
\ man without vital force is handicap
ped in the race of life, and is, as a rule,
sure to go 20 the rear. A race of in
valids cannot do much to enrich the
world with great thoughts. great struc-
lures and great cOnquests. Chest and
stomach. lungs and liver. bear a very
direct relation to high thinking and
high achievements of all sorts. History
tells us that when the gymnasium was
in its glory in Athens and health and
bodily grace were at their highest,
Greece reached her high-water mark
in art, literature and philosophy. Sick
ness is waste and a feeble constitution
is loss; loss 10 the individual and a
loss to society. Colorado is a great
sufferer from imported individualism.
Then consider how much is added to
the wealth of society by right thinking,
One of the most profitable sources of
waste and loss is ignorance. The In
dian still plows with a crooked stick
and drives his oxen through the streets
hitched to the rudest kind of a prim-
tie wagon because he lacks knowl-
edge. Social enrichment comes not
from forests and farms and mines, but
from brain capacity and education.
Wealth is the product of superior skill.
Peter Cooper made a fortune by gath
ering up scraps thrown away and con-
verting them into glue. Millet went to
the store and bought a piece of canvas
for | franc, and for 2 francs he pur-
chased a brush and some colors. Then
his patient, p%lodding, never-tiring brain
went TO work and spread upon that bit
of canvas the immortal picture called