The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
CONCLUSION.
THINK have said enough Of the
spirit and manifestat tons of tn.

r THINK have said enough Of the
n spirit and manifestations Of the
simple life. TO make it evident that
there is here whole forgotten world
of strength AID bea uty. He can make
conquest OF 1t who has sufficient energy
to detach himself from the fatal rub
Dish that trammels our days. 1t will
Eot take him long to perceive that in
rcnouncing some surface SatfSfaCtionS
and childish ambitions. he increases his
faculty of happiness and his possibili-
ties of right judgment
These results concern as much the
private as the public life. It is incOn-
testable that in striving against the
feVerish Will TO shine, in ceaSing To
make the satisfaction of our desires
the end Of our activity. in returning 10
modest tastes, to the true life. we shall
labor for the unity Of the family An
other spirit viii breath in our homes.
creating new customs and an atmos-
phere more favorable to the education
OF children. Little by little our bows
and girls VIII feel the enticement of
ideals at once higher and more raa liz
able. And transformation OF the home
VIII in time exercise its influence on
public spirit. AS the solidity of a wall
depends upon the grain of the stones
and the consistenCe of the cement
which binds them together, so also the
energy of public life depends upou The
individual value of men and their
power of cohesion. The great deSid-
eratum OF our time is the culture of the
component parts of society. of the in
dividual man. Everything in the pres
ent social organism leads us back to
this element. In neglecting il we ex-
pose ourselves to the loss Of the bene-
fits of progress. even to making our
nest persistent efforts turn to our own
hurt. If in the midst of means con-
tirually more and more perfected. the
workman diminishes in value. of what
use are these flne tools oil his diSpOsal2
BY their very excellence to make more
evident the faults of him who uses
them without diScernment or without
conscience The VIII eelvvork of the great
modern machine is infinitely delicate
Carelessness, incompetence or Corrup-
ton may produce here disturbances of
far greater gravity than would have
threatened the more OF less rudin7en-
tary organism of the society of the
past There is need then of look
ing 10 the quality of the individual
called upon to contribute I'm any meas
ure TO the workings Of thiH mechanism
This individual should be at once solid
and pliablc, inspired with the central
law of life-tO be ones self and frat
eTnal Everything within US and with
out us becomes simDlitied and unified
under the influence Of this law. which
is the same for everybody and by
which each one should guide his ac-
tions: for our essential interests are
not opposing, they are Identical. In
cultivating the spirit Of simplicity. We
should arrive, then. at giving to public
life stronger cohesion.
The phenomena of decomposition and
destruction that we see there may all
be attributed TO the same caase,-Iack
OF solidity and cohesion. 1t viii never
be possible 10 say how contrary TO
social good are the t~ifing interests OF
co r,rs
strife for personal welfare. and, by
fatal consequence. how destructive
these things arc of individual happi-
ness. A society in which each member