The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-13

sravation OF the spirit Of hostility amons
our fellow-bcitlgs and our hearts ARE
less at peace than ever. u
. 1t Is useless to ask II we have become
better. Does not the nerve OF good.
ness lie In the capacity Of man to love
something besides HIMSELF And what
place would remain for the nelghbor III
n life sacrificed to material cares to
needs mostly fictitious to the satisfaction
Of ambitions. hatreus and fantasies? The
man who gives himself up entirely to
the service OF his appctites makes then,
grow and multiply so rapidly that they
become stronger than he. He is delivered
to an internal anarchy. from which Is
born at last an outward and visible am
archy. Moral life consists In the govern
,nent Of ones self. immortality consist.
In the government Of ourselves BY our
needs and our passions. Thus, little by
little. the bases OF the moral life arc dis
placed and tho rule OF Judgment Is de-
Waited from.
For a man, slave to numerous and ex-
acting needs, to possess is the greatest
good, source of oil other good things. 1t
is true that, In tho fierce struggle for
possession, wo come to hate those who
possess, and deny the right OF property
when that right Is in the hands of ans
III attacking the possessions OF others Is
n new proof Of the extraordinary imports
ance which VIC attach to possession It
self, Things and men end by being estl-
mated at their selling price, and tho
profit to be made therefrom.
That which brings nothing Is worth
nothing, and he who has nothing Is moth
ing. Honest poverty risks passing for
shame. and even unclean money has lit
tie difficulty In passing for merit.
Then" some ono objects, you con-
denim modern progress by wholesale, and
you would lead us to the good old times,
to asccticism. perhaps?" Not ut all. 1t
is the most sterile and dangerous OF
Utoplas to wish to ,csuscitate the past.
and the art ot-rlght living does not con-
sist in withdrawing oneself from life
But we are seeking to bring to light,
with the aim of finding remedy for
It, one Of those errors which weigh
heaviest on social progress. and that Is,
that man becomes happier and better by
increase Of his outward we'll being. Moth
ing Is falser than this pretended social
axom. On the contrary. The diminish
ing OF the capacity for being happy and
the debasement Of characters by material
without counter-weight, is a
fact which a thousand examples are at
hand to establish. A civilization is 4
valued by what tho man Installed in Its
center is worth. When that man ncks
moral direction, all progress but serves
to make the evil worse and 10 further
embron social problems FL. 81 y
This principle may be verified 'in other
domains than that Of well-being. We will
buts those OF instruction and lib:
erty. We remember tho time when proph-
to 1r,hn a. nS11 ,o15 %r1I
transform q barren land into an abode.l
tit for tho gods It would suffice to over
throw those coalescent old powers; MIS-
cry, ignorance and tyranny. Other propll-
cts To-day repeat the same predictions.
We have Just seen that the evident de-
crease Of misery has not made tF1al,& bet-
ter nor happier. Has this result .bcen;
achieved in i a. certain llie:lsura 81 tie !!
praiscworthy efforts Of instruction? ltii
does not appear so at the prOsen E 3hour.aI
and this Is the nnxiety.--tl,es despnirS OF
those who have consccra ted 5themse!veB
to our national education. Then neFnust, \
the schools? ByS8rpl
means; but instructions like tic usset,I-iI
plnge Of the Inventions Of ours;t ivi;izk-
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