Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-07-25
IF WE LIVED ON THE PEAKS.

TTof"rrof hafi"S Iu'bIih r'-
 marks on the married relation in a r.. cent lecture to his class al the univcr.
 siiy of Chicago. probably have been exaggerated by n sensational press, but
 if he used anything like the language
 reported. he is unfit to be trusted 10 a guide 10 students. or yonng. Pro.
 found thinkers. like Professor IIacck.
 cl, have made it fashionable in schools
 throughout the world. recently, to view
 marriage in the cold light of frozen
 and highly refined intcllectuslity, and
 Iiacckcl's "wonders of Life," and
 Riddle of the Universe" are even
 prescribed in the curriculum of many
 colleges, says the Los Angeles News.
 Men like Zuebliu make mess of i,,
 however. when they attempt to reduce
 this reasoning to terms of practical living. It is doubtfsl if IIaeckei would be read by undergraduates at all. His books are strong meat, even for men.
 As to the Zucblinr. they should he promptly suppressed, or. at least. con
 fined to their Legitimate sphere. that of preaching civic reforms.
 No one hut s highly educated idiot would seriously teach, in class of young men and women. the doctrine of tho purity of the nude. Is thcre no such thing as modcsty in the philo. sophy of thinkers like Zueblini The aphorism of ito the pure all things are puve' is fsIlaeious. simply because no one is pure minded, no sane human being can he 50. lVtting away, as we may. all prurient suggestions, it is possible only to n few. and only in ccr- thin limited relations, to regard tho nude in n purely intellectual way. And the nude, even in art, is usually omprchensiblc. unless viewed in the light of ones own physical under. standing.
 lint ,Iucblin is most dangerous when hc teaches sneb subtle propositions as that "every normal man or woman has room for more than one person in the heart,' meaning presumably that married men and women should culti. vaie warm friendships with those of opposite sex, outside the family circle. Providing we all lived. with Zucblin. on the mountain peaks of cold intellcc. tnnliiy, it might bc safe and proper for husbands to take to themselves friendships with various women, and for wives to do likewise with men. Hut. dwelling as we do. down below, in the valleys. where human passions, human weaknesses, desires and i'm. pulses so often control the machinery of life. it is neither safe nor defcnsible.
 'nhappily. men and women too often ar" nasty in choosing their life part ners and the marriage relation becomes a sorry. if not tragic travesty upon the hcnven. ordained institution. But the fault is not with the system of monogamous marriage. The remedy for the evils which the divorce courts re cord does not lie in free love. The Zue blins, with tbeir illogical doctrines, ,only increase the evil they pratc about.
 Of course, the real trouble with the Zueblins K htat of the pint pitcher and the gallon of milk. To read liaeekel, and understand him. Is to add vastly to one's mental and moral conceptions of life. Hut those who see in his pro found and unanswcrable logic only an assault upon the sacred institutions of the family are intellectual pigmies, who should he nourished on infants food. and taught ts hold their topgu ,s in company.