The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-04-28
JOYS OF Simple LIFE
OREGONIAN TALKS ENTERTAINMENT ON SUB
JECT Of GREAT HUMAN INTEREST

by the birth of The Harvard Theological Review 1t
y publication of undenominaonal which heretca
Eer reward may survive the pests which rage round
It's speculative and kepca pages says the Oregonan The JOY
which this periodical will afford the world will be mainly the
JOY of combat hence probably safe saying that will
enhance gaey great DEAL for battle usually gay Still
may provoke occasional smile We confess fact having
ndulged ourselves little mrth Professor Thomas ~ Car
notion of he simple life which forth article of his
The Problem of Ev in the January number of the Review.
Professor Carver thinks that the simple life e suppression
of des much after the of the old stoc who found that
the struggle for much for them and sought get
the better of it by ceasing struggle.
This concept of the simple life fundamentally wrong 1t does
the suppression of DESIRE but the contrary To person who
would lead the simple life things recommended by eange
The first anayze his present routine of and learn
part really satisfies desire and what does The former
he retain while he eliminates the latter suggested that
he will find himself performing great many every day which
only unnecessary but highly annoying He does them be-
they satisfy any of his DESIRES but because somebody has told
him they proper respectable Perhaps they pleasing
him formerly but longer "A large part the ordinary
routine of human beings is extremely veXaous,
necessary burden which has been piled upon r shoulders by
another If they rid of for good and ALL they
would have both time and money satisfy many genuine
desires than they The simple life therefore not at
all the suppression but the development of wants 1t the
ventional routine which suppresses them
In the second place. the simple life the satisfaction of de-
res rational way without superauou dis play worry and
pense In other words is the application of intelligent economy
the problem of living. Naturally if perosn should eliminate
his existence he could enjoy himself much than he
utes only fraction his physical mental and spirit
ua If he should form habit of doing what he really
wishes instead of what others him do he would get
deal of his journey between the cradle and the grave than
he under the usual arrangements The gospel of the simple
life truly impulse toward complete and substatal salts
faction of than attain present 1t not in the slightest
degree ascetc stoicaL II is genuine Epcureansm
According Professor Carver evil arises in the world from the
gnawng of unfuhed DESIRES which perfectly But he thinks
that only practical method of from it is to
of our desires especially that OF pareood Hence ne P
proves of what he calls e simple life doubtful whether
many apostles of that doctrine would agree with his for
preaching It, They look tor the solution OF the problem OF evil by
quite pensc though they concede readily enough
from the struggle for existence This being
would that the natural rid of evil would be to get rid
struggle that it. 1t be supposed that Professor
Carver blind obvious but he believes that the struggle
for existence until become ausc that
person will prefer others happiness his This
nation would of require radical change human nature
though perhaps radical many imagine and will be long
time the way, if it ever comes at all
The of the struggle for existence the disparity between
y and demand We says Professor Carver than
possibly get Hence of always feel unsas6ed wants
deny that than get To him it apparent that
for the struggle for existence between man and man
las already been eliminated lhee was time Whe the eart m
produce enough food shelter and comforts supply the wants of
the human but that time past AS long there was de
ciency robbery war; piracy were perfectly rational They were
necessary progress But through the invention of machinery inn
povemnts agriculture all of new devices for creating wealth
have at last found means to produce all we want Inc prop
which confronts how produce enough to satisfy
DESIRE but how distribute abundance
The good things which create to have an nvicbe tend
ency in stagnan instead of flowing out in
efreshg through the world but does not look reasonable
should take many thousand years solve the problem OF
distribution did for that of production Perhaps the solution
already hand Of the increase of population stands
like lion the way experience show that the desire
which leads undue multiplication of human beings dies
natural death with the rise of the standard of living 1t the mer
able classes who bring forth too children The way to put
stop to evil relieve their misery, and may be they
will it through excessive fecund This does not I'M
the suppression of the desire for parenhood but the partial
planting of by others To the reflective mind today the bgbear OF
which appears formidable the old school eco
aomst little substance