Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-09
NAN AND SUPERMAN."
Bernard shaw's Play Subject Of Dr.
Paden's Sermon.

Rev Dr. Paden preached last eve
ming ia the First Presbyterian church
on Man and superman," Bernard
Shaws play. The speaker said In part:
Man and Superman,' a comedy and
a philosophy, by Bernard shaw. is good
comedy and bad philosophy. II re-
minds one Of a Fourth Of July celebra.
lion. IL Is full Of fireworks. Fireworks
nave their place, perhaps. IN our ma
tonal life. Most people get innocent
enjoyment out OF them, though they
get the nerves Of some OF Us older folk.
ana usually Kill a few score children,
or citizens. and wound n thousand or
tNo more. ] Imagine. however. than
MI Shaw's plays may not be So dead
~ Al any rate. he evidently means
10 sung us 10 thought and action, rath-
er Than 10 shed our LIES blood He
is banderillero and not a matador."
After treatment OF Shaw's mysterious
mission, his teachings az cOntrastei
with his distinctions, and his maltreat-
ment OF the emotions, Dr. Paden said.
Character is matter OF motive.
What motives are uppermost In Mr..
Shaw's play? Philosophy? He sug-
gests two driving wheels as most i'm
poriant to him. Man, like the othe,
animals, Is driven 20 action BY m.
instinct OF Representation and the
instinct Of sex These find expression
IN thrift property, etc, on the one
hahd' and IN marriage. children ana
home on the other He satirizos all
these products. Yet Mr.. Shaw's big
medicine Is what he calls life force on
sex instinct, This life force is 10 him
the dominant resident force IN human
nature. which Is predominatingly ami
mai This accounts for his attacks OF,
the more human products OF this IN
sllncI Home. says he. is the girls I
prison and The Womans workhouse I
Nhcn the superman energies children /
WI De- cared for by the community I'M /
healthflu and uniform conditions and /
we shan arrive at what he calls The
happy time when the continuity of SO.
cleiy no longer depends upon the nur-
sey'
what Is IN this sex instinct that he
liids the Vital purpose Of the race
One must not be brutal, but one is re-
inln9td OF Pope's suggestion that with
su'n theory Of NE The chief end OF
man Is to eat. sleep, play. fight. propa-
safe ana rot Al any rate, Mr.. shaw
lespises over-bellefs and hates ali
deals and idealism.
lie pins his whole faith n sort
u personally conducted outworking
u natural history, This means thai
ne makes his appeal for motive 10 the
hsilhcts OF man as mere ratIonal
'hilnal. Instead Of exploiting the ar,
erchce here Is between the man ana
ne ape ne exploits the slmilarlties
ne nutrition he thinks Of Is ali FOR
ne mortal; the immortal does not seen,
o nave arisen above his horizon. Tho
'eN Instinct which he thinks Of Is mar
ranslent thing which dies with m,
'oay ara not that eternal thing wbicb
nay 90 on forever as love.
Men talk Of the new ways tho nos.
housni, me new life force. the com.
ns man. The superman and oyermon
ma undertook the very blazing wav of
luth ard life itself II does one good
o rest on the larger experience src
'hHosophy Of st. Paula philosonhv
men is also a practical. everyday re-.
son and an Inspiration to practical
Fory-day mortality. I teach Won ill.,
Ftrman.' says Nleztsche. FOR man -
1meihins 20 be surpassed Evep
'hcst Rcnan could have pointed hin,
0 me overman he needed. For saws
2, whatever may be the unlocked for D
henomena ~ the future. Jesus viii {
OF be surpassed" :