Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04
HUMAN RIGHTS

NTANY years ago a famous Calfor-
MI MIA poet asked: 'Is civilization
AtA failure. or is the Caucasian
played out?" While this California
poets children are still alive, university
presidents and professors are asking
seriously the question Bret Harte
asked jestingly.
DR.. Patten of the University of
Pennsylvania in his remarkable book
entitled product and Climax" writes:
mo progress based on material con-
ditions can reach far enough to satisfy
all the aspirations of men: on the 9TH
er hand. it is equally true that moral
ity, religion and culture do not reach
far enough down to be effective means
of raising men from the depth into
which they sink We do not need a
new religion, a new morality or new
culture. They are already effective in
their proper field; but we do need in
tenser motives for men subjected to
depression and degeneration, and TINS
gap cannot be filled by any of the
older and already perfected schemes
of social betterment. CIVILIZATION
IS FAILING THROUGH ITS sue
CESS, for it has created a class TOO
low to be moved by it, By saving the
weak. by preventing disease, by re-
moving starvation and fear, lower
tyne of man survives than was pos
sible in the primitive world. In this
lower realm, where religion and moral
ity do not act, amusements and sports
are the only effective motives to eIe-
vate men, Sport is the beginning OF
Inspiration, just as amusement Is the
lower round of regeneration. Together
thew form a natural ladder, giving
motives of increasing intensity, through
which the lowest men can be elevated
to the plane where religion and culture
act
"Only the most elemental forces act
upon men depressed by overwork and
depenerated by overcrowding. These
evils affect us all by undermining the
base upon which society rests and that
is why the moral agencies must
open their doors and keep their lamps
burning until the. dawn if they would
deal with these two monstrous sins OF
product
"TTntil they are overcome, sin walks
abroad in the noontime and the church
sees it not; disease eats the mind OF
the scholar and the school knows II
NOT. lethargy, weariness, CRIME XIII
the color on the cheek of the girl, the
fire in her eyes, the courage IN her
heart. and poetry mourns it not Let
them rouse themselves like living
Giants and command US to let the
product go and to give men their
rights their rights to time and space
without them religion will not hnd
the soul, education the MIND or poetry
the heart of man."
The teaching of the distinguished
educator rings with the spirit OF the
teaching of Jesus, which was SO dls-
gustiny to the materialists, the money
qrubbers. the product-grabbers ana
hoarders of HIS day: Take heed ana
beware of covetousness, for man
life consisteth not in the abundance OF
things which he possesseth. 1ake
no thought (anxiety) for your ll1e'
what We shall eat; neither for the BODY
what We shall put on q. e., do not
vorrv). The life is more than meat
and the body is more than raiment'
consider the ravens, for they neither
sow nor reap; which neither nave
storebouse nor barn; and God feedeth
them. how much more are We better
than the fowls? And which OF you
with taking thought can add to his
stature one cubit? If ye then be not
abla to do that thing which is least
whv take We thought for q. e. worry
ovar, the rest? Consider the lilies now
thew grow; they toll not, they spin not;
and vet I say unto you, that Solomon
in all his glory C'even at his grand
eet"l was not arrayed like one of these
If Cod then so clothe the grass, which
is TODAY in the field and tomorrow is
cast into the oven, how much more
will he clothe you, o ye of little faith!
And seek ye not what we shall eat or
what We shall drink, neither be ye or
doubtful ii. e., worried) mind. For all
these things do the nations of the
world seek after; and your Father