Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-01-05
WHERE THEosoPHY is PUT INTO
PRACTICE.

sophical brotherhood in California
made by Mr.. Ray Stannard Baker,
the Literary Digest says, is a practical
realization of "the evolution philoso-
ply of Spencer and Darwin carried
out to its logical and ultimate express
sion; teaching that the law of pro-
gressive development. 80. works in
the realm of the spiritual existence
as 1t does in that of physical exist
ence." This settlement presents, ac-
cording to his article in The Ameri-
can Magazine (January), "a group of
cultivated men and women, inspired
or perverted, according to ones point
of view, by faith so ardent, so
strange to ordinary knowledge, that
they had left their former homes,
their business, and even their friends
and relatives, had settled upon a far
and wonderfully beautiful point of
land reaching out into the Pacific
ocean from Southern California, and
were there seeking the ideal life, as
they conceive it." Most of the resi-
dents, declares Mr.. Baker, are cult
waited people, many are wealthy, some
very wealthy. He continues, in sur
veying the membership:
1T Is not so surprising to find ar
lists, musicians, literary men, profess
sors and inventors in such an institu-
ton; men who naturally dream
dreams; they are found in every COM
munal experiment.; but it Is certain
ly remarkable that the same influence
has attracted hard-headed men who
have been for years in active bust
ness life and have made fortunes;
but there are many such men at Point
Iona. In the same way people from
all walks in life have been attracted
printers, carpenters, teamsters,
electricians, bookkeepers-so that the
institution, so far as its work is con-
cerned, is practically self-contained.
among the prominent members of
the brotherhood are: A. G.. Spalding,
the famous sporting-goods manufac-
turer; Clerk Thurston, former presi-
dent American Screw company; F. M.
Pierce, of the Pierce Engineering
company of New York; w. Ross White
prominent Georgia manufacturer; w.
F.. Hanson, Georgia inventor of cot
ton-weaving machine; r. Machele,
English artist. Miss Herbert, sister
of the former British Minister to the
United States. Ex-Secretary Gage,
though not member, is a resident at
Point Iona, and deeply interested in
it."
Life in. this community is entirely
diverse from the models provided by
the outside world. Children are edu-
Gated somewhat after the manner of
the old Greek ideals. Family life dis
appears. The training of children
even from infancy, and the prosecu-
ton of household duties, such espe-
cially as pertain to eating, are con-
Quoted on the cooperative plan. Ev-
erybody works, but each elects the
work he likes best. "The lawyer of
the institution. Universities his legal
work by experimenting the vegetable
garden" His wife cooks in the kitch-
en-. The leader of the orchestra takes
turn at gate-tending; writer for
The Century Path, the organ of the
brotherhood, may do turn as a men,
der of roads. All are students. Music
and the drama, home-produced, are
among the recreations. "They have
produced among other plays The Eu-
menides' of Aeschylus in the open-air
theater under conditions of climate
and sky and with costumes which
must have made the performance
close duplication Of those of ancient
Greece" "And it is not unhumorous,"
continues Mr.. Baker, mot uncharac-
teristic, to note that during the pro-
% "a .~I. ~