The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-11
LARk|N WOULD
ABOLISH CHURCH
AND RELIGION
Noted Astronomer Declares
That Marriage Should
Be Prohibited
LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN
Predicts Great Changes in
Social Conditions in
Fifty Years
DELIVERS ADDRESS
Advocates Principles of
Eugenics Societies in
His Speech
DELIVERS ADDRESS

Throw religion out of the churches.
Replace it with the scientific teaching
Of the laws of nature. Produce chill
dren who will be able to grapple with
the problems that now confront the
world. the greatest problems the
world has ever known Do away with
religion, for science and religion can
never be harmonized."
Such is the latest dictum of Pro-
fessor Edgar L. Larkin. the noted
astronomer OF. the Mt. Lowe observa-
tory, who announced the revolutions
ary theory that marriage should be
abolished in a speech before the
Sociological society Monday night
His latest sensational utterance was
made last night at a meeting of the
Eugenics association at All Page
street, where he. as honorary presi-
dent of the association was the chief
speaker OF the evening. And this,
declared Professor Larkin, is not the
most radical of the beliefs to which
he viii give utterance in his campaign
for new culture. To use his own
words. y haven't said anything radical
yet. This is just beginning.
The assault on the whole structure
of religious teaching is made by Pro-
fessor Larkin IN conformity with his
general idea of the overthrow of all
accepted civilized ideas Of sex rela-
tionship. The doctrines of the New
Testament are, according TO him,
the very converse of the laws of
declares. when science must be
accepted as the worlds guide to save
the human race from destruction, and
he predicts that another so years will
see the overthrow of all religion, a
revolution in all civil law and new
standard in education.
Fifty years hence he asserted. pick
ing up book, "the now accepted
standards of religion and education Will
be overthrown like this and he turned
the book over and laid it down.
GLOOMY PROSPECT
In opening his address Professor
Larkin drew on the statistics produced
before the irrigation congress to show
that the worlds supply of coal and
wood will be completely exhausted in
100 years at the present consumption
and waste rate, and this he made the
basis for declaration that unless SCI
entists are forthcoming who can take
and store heat from the potential
energy of the sun, the human race will
be wiped out.
The only remedy he cried. lis to
produce men of greater minds than
any who now live. BY the end of the
second generation from now there
must be men on earth greater than
Edison or Tesla or the human race
shall freeze. The population of the
temperate zones will crowd toward
the equator. and eventually all human
life will disappear. We must meet
this mighty problem. and the study OF
eugenics alone can solve it.
Tell the children who come into the
Sunday schools something about
eugenics. their own bodies and the
laws of nature. Turn the churches
into eugenic societies; forget religion;
don't talk of mythical gods; relegate
the very word religion to the back OF
the dictionary; learn to produce chill
dren who are able to grapple with the
problems before US. Religion is CO.
ing: rationalism and science are coming
to take its place. No woman can be
taught TO care for her own body or
produce a perfect child so long as she
Is stepped and saturated with the doc
trines of the New Testament. The
teachings of ST. Paul and the teach
ings of science can never harmonize
REVOLUTION IN CHURCHES
I'm a few years our churches will
have been turned bottomside up; we
will have thrown the word religion
out of the front door; education will
have been revolutionized. When the
time has come that a IA year old girl
can go inside a Sunday school and be
permitted to hear read one law of ma
ture. rather than the teachings of re-
ligion. monument should be erected
to the event.
Now our boys and girls have read
to them the doctrines of an obsolete,
utterly senseless religion, but they
never hear from their teachers a single
one of the fundamental laws OF ma
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