The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17
MAN AND CIVILIZATION.


~HE world over there are differences of opinion as
to what constitutes civilization. The Asiatc ma
tions have one standard the European another The
European standard determined largely by the nJunc-
tions of Christianity Whether Chrstendom living up
TO that standard need not be discussed The Rev. DR..
Abbott the learned and agreeable OF our
ligous philosophers of the opnion that not
entirely civilized He may be right but his declaration
leaves room for plea defense In address to the
students of the University California Dr. Abbott said:
America and speak plainly, is not entirely civilized
Government that allows some OF its postohce offl~
cals TO 90 wrong Government that puts into its Leg
isaures whose sole ambition is to thrust their arms
deep the public is not wholly civilized
We may grant the premise and yet make plea IN de-
fense Are we not doing as we'll as could be expected
even from the standpoint of Dr. Abbotts theology? Ac
cordn to cosmology of theological teaching the
human started from special creation ana was per-
feet The morals of the original family put IN the
safest environment by locating it in garden That is
still regarded as the ideal condition of the Its
tact with the o where plant and watch the green
things growing is still believed to be the condition most
conducive virtue
In all ages since they found song the poets have sung
of the green fields asphodel meadows the blades of
grass diamond pointedy of the morning. The
first family had all of these and perfect But the
cord of its four shows that just hreeourths of
them fell and the other survive but killed by
he had no children Therefore the sole member of the
primitive stock who could by heredty have transmitted
the pershed childess and only the hered
ty of the other three was perpetuated
Under these circumstances the expected happened.
The race from such a Jukes family from the
beginning. 1t got bad that there doing any
thing the face of the earth washed clean
of the whole set except family. This second
start made under the disciplinary and ad-
rnonitory circumstances These differed materially and
valy the conditions under which the first expert
ment was made There concert by the morning
stars no garden and idyllic conditions The family
selected for the second peopng of the earth the wit
of appalling physical calamity and impressed
by the survival of the ftcst aloat the raging
with the seeage filled by the beasts of the field The
whole experience admonory in the highest degree.
Yet what happened in spite of these frghtfu manifes-
taons? AS this family landed and alone up
on the earth the father of it planted vineyard made
wine, got drunk and did unspeakabe things which would
be ndctable now, and of the three cursed
and sent forth outcast With that unpromsing be-
ginning the race took second start.
Granting that a thousand years in the in
scrutable scheme insist that it has done well
as could be expected All of the families of aver
better than either of the two that began the peopng
earth Evidence of this exists in the fact that
has been found necessary wipe all of the
race but one household and start over.
1t will do say that this has been omitted because
creative patience exhausted in the first attempts
and their failure 1t will do say that proved
be such tough formation that Omnipotence de-
SPARED of his corrgibity The earth is bigger nor
the catacysmal elements less in volume and
than when found necessary cleanse this
trial ball with If things improving the
of correction still exist and erring postal officers
and legislators who with Mazuma and all the
guilty by procurement indifference be whemed
shoreless
1t will do say that this discipline is omitted be-
OF the existence of the rainbow and the
told positively that violation death But this
not kept though it violated DIR. Abbott
puts the need of for the That
first the only law. There no other
act entitled But for it was lacking and
broken and then the penalty visited upon
the transgressors They merely turned of the
garden and condemned their bread in the sweat
their faces forced exude in less agreeable pursuits
The average respect for the law and the enforcement
its penalties have greatly improved since then.
Therefore it is that inclined to take hopeful
view OF man. His two starts rather hard Shedding
and in his behalf always be pleaded that he
petitioned to be all. IT, he was simply
depressing view taken of him by in these days it
probable that instead of asking be created he would
have filed protest against it.
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