Arizona republican., 1904-12-16

It seems to be in the scheme of world growth to commit certain vital truths to the fostering care of certain na- tions, respectively. The said truth of eternal life was given to Egypt. Plant ed int the deepest desire of the heart of man. watered by his tears, often blighted by his fears, it became a tree to fill the earth and feed the race with its glad fruit, for Egypt performed her part faithfully. Her greatest literature was the Book of. the Dead, her great est architecture, the royal sepulchres, her greatest art. adorned tombs. Her greatest scientific achievement was embalming, and the greatest crime an Egyptian could commit was to sell the mummy of his father. It was fitting that he who brought immortality to light should be called out of Egypt.
 It is significant that there is only hint of it in the early scriptures of the Hebrews. They must have been fla miliar with the doctrine, after four hundred years association with a peo- pie so saturated with it. It can only be accounted for by their hatred of>ev- erything Egyptian. Prejudice is the greatest enemy of progress. The day of universal good will among men will be a day of great illumination and rapid assimilation or truth.
 Greece ministered to civilization in many ways, the greatest service, be- cause fundamental to all the others, was the theory of the universe worked cat by her philosophers. With bold ness they uncovered their falsity Of old religions and evolved the majestic con ception of One who is uncreate, yet in nom the whole creation Hives ard moves and has it's being''-that one Life lives i1 and manifestS through all llves-the most soul-expanding thought that ever engaged the human mind, furnishing a rational premium for pi- vine Fatherhood and human brother hood Tn the freedom and tolerance springing from such solution of the riddle of the universe, all the fine arts f1ourished and Beauty was queen, but there was no unity of national life save for a few brilliant years under the hypnotic spell of Alexander.
 Rome developed the model state, and established the reign of law rooted in justice. Frederick Harrison says: 'The Greeks were the authors of philosophy the Romans of government, justice and peace. The Greek ideal was thought, the Roman ideal was law. The, Greeks taught us the noble lesson of individ- ual freedom, the Romans the still mo- bier lesson of social duty" And to Rome he gives the highest place in the ancient world.
 Whenever any people attained a high degree of culture it was time for the scene-shifting to begin. Corruption within was soon followed by attack from without. Libraries and works of art Were destroyed Wealth was pill laged and statesmen and scholars were taken captive. War and captivity were the chief appointments for travel in those days. The arts of civilized life were spared in this way. And it often happened that the learned slave taught his master, and finally owned him in the truest sense. But why must footprints of blood mark every upward step taken by our climbing, race? All down the past we see war going forth as a wrecking train to clear the track for the oncoming car of civilization. Need 1t be so if hu- manity were open-minded, willing to relinquish customs and institutions which have fulfilled their purpose? Many of them which are most perni- cious in their decline once served the