Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-09

has taken him precisely where all that
truly constitutes life is strangled daily
with a ferocity that is, perhaps, posi-
bic only in the modern jungle we eau
civilization. What wondrous piece OF
work is man; in beauty how like an
angel, in apprehension how like god =
Shakespeare evidently had no premoni-
ton of our criminal courts. Says OAR
row:
Here. as elsewhere in human conduct,
after all is said and done, men must
come back to the fundamental prin-
ciple that the conduct which makes
for life is wise and right
Whatever tends to happiness tends to
life-joy is life and misery is death.
Are there not times. again and again,
when the actual facts of existence call
out loudly to you that this is true;
mornings when you find yourself singu-
larly in tune with the universe, aDnor-
maily responsive to every loving beam
from human eyes; when the BIRDS seem
to sing and the flowers to bloom as they
never sung and bloomed before; and do
you not then know that you are
''slive"? On the other hand, do there
not come to all of us times when, from
physical pain or mental suffering, we
feel a hate OF life, and are we not then,
as the phrase goes, dead to the world !
Well, that is the basis of Resist NOT
HVll.f 9S IL IL TIC Wal eAiAA WV -
Herbert Spencer's data OF Ethics the
heart of the passionate cry for a free
individuality poured out by Max Stir
ner in his EGO and His own" and
the handspring of the denunciation OF
factory life that Tolstoy has given US
in his "Slavery of Our Own Times
and KropotlSin in his Conquest OF
Bread" 1t was this that urged Tho
reau into the wilderness, that he might
10 II In INVALID
en-" what there really is in this mani
Hesitation that men call life; and that
drove Warren to continue writing while
starvation was bounding him to his
grave .'Joy is life and misery is
DEATH: Joy develops, misery withers;
we must develop because it is our ma
ture. what we actually know is the
breath of life that pants and struggles
for relief"
barrow cites Buddha, confucius,
plato and Socrates as showing the EVIL
and destruction of war, of conquest, OF
violence and of hatred, and as teaching
the beneficence of peace, of forgiveness.
How old the story Isl Men yearn 1or
life and shrink from the risk OF iVins'
thew have a passionate longing for ex-
nression and a cowardice that goads
them to repression; they would iauncn
their bark boldly on the sea'of lire put
they dread the pOSSiDl6 SlOiiiS e1ii0
Choir in the fancied Ravens OF asceti-
cisrn. puritanism, all those thousand
and one forms of repression, from the
autocracy of car to petty movements
for closing theaters on Sundays, that
are, one and all, but the proofs of their
fear of life.
Questions Beneficence of Killing
Are not courage, and dash, and intit-
alive: the willingness to run risks that
comes with the bubbling up of the
snrings OF life, fine things? Oh! yes;
undoubtedly; but, unless kept in prop
err check, they might-you know. Are
NOT standing armies and huge navies
hack breaking burdens; do they not
condemn millions to grossly unnatural
lives. and do they not constantly en-
gender the very evils they are intended
To GUARD against? oh, yes! 1t is only
foo true, but the enemy--Japan today,
germany tomorrow and God alone can
fell who the week after-might, you
know. Do not governments work With
enormous friction and expense; do they
NOT themselves create classes and build
nm monstrous special privileges; is not
ret. whole machinery for the admins