The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-09-10
THE MEANING OF LIFE
From the Concluding Chapter Of Progress and Poverty by Henri
Georpel

find fendshose who will toll it, suffer for it, if need be die
for This is the power of Truth
VIII length prevail? Ultimately yes But in our own times
or in times of which any memory of remains who shall saw
For the who, seeing the and misery the ignorance
and bshness caused by unjust social institutions sets himself in
far has ength right them there disappointment and
and bitterness So has been of old time So it even now
But the houghand sometimes comes to the best and
avesis that of the hopeessne of the effort the uiy of the
sacrifice To how few Of those who the seed given see it
grow or even with certainty to know that it will grow
disguise it. Over and again has the standard
Of Truth Justice been raised in this world and over again
has it tramped down oftenme in blood If they are weak
forces opposed Truth how should Error long prevail
Justice raise her head have Injustice before her
how should the wall of the oppressed so long go up?
But for who Truth and would follow her. for those
who recognize Justice and would stand for her. the
only thing Success Why Faehood has often that give and
Injustice has that give Must Truth Justice have
something give that is their by proper rghttheirs
essence and not by accident?
That they have and here and now every one who has
felt their exalaton knows But sometimes the clouds sweep down
h sad sad reading the lives of who would have done
thing for their fellows To Socrates they gave the hemlock;
Gracious they killed with sticks and stones greatest and
% ALL they crucfed These but types Today Russian
prisons full and in long professions and who but
for hgmnded patriotism might have lived and luxury
chains toward the deathe of Siberia And penury
and neglect and contempt destitute of the sympathy
that would have bee how every country have closed
their eyes? This
BIT do goe see it aLl2 Z <
The great fact which Science all branches shows is the
mersay of law Wherever he whether in the fall OF
apple the revolution of binary the astronomer sees the
working of the law which operates in the mnutest divisions
which may distinguish space it does the neasuabe
distances with which his science deals Out Of that which lies be-
ond his telescope moving body and again disappears
far trace the law ignored Does he
that this exception? On the contrary he that this IS
merely part orbit that he has that beyond the reach OF his
telescope the law holds good He makes his calculations and after
centuries they are proved
Now if we trace out the laws which govern life in
society find that in the largest the smallest community they
are the We find that what at first sight like dyerg
and exceptions manifestations of the same principles
And we find that everywhere trace It, the social law runs
INTO and conforms with the moral law that in the lite OF con
y justice nfalb brings reward and injustice its punishment
But this individual life If we look merely at IN
ddual life we cannot see that laws of the universe have the
slightest relation good bad right wrong to Just or u
Just Shall then say that the law which is manifest IN soa
lie not of individual life? 1t is scientific to say So we
would say reference anything else Shall we not rather
say this simply proves do the whole OF individual
life?
In life as are cognzant OF mental development can go
but little way The mind hardly begins to awake ere the D0a
powers denet but becomes dmy conscious OF the vast hS o
lore but begins and strength TO recognize eo
md extend sympathes when with the death OF the body
ses away there something there seems mere
Teak failure Whether be Hubot or Hechel Moses
no looks from Psgah Joshua who leads the host OF one o @
"ee and patient souls who circles live radiant IVES "
Gems if and character here developed further pu
ose inconsistent with what we Of the linked sequence
j the universe
What then the meaning of ifeof life absolutely ana m
by bounded by death To nellglbe Only as t
Venue and vsbule TO another life And its facts seem explain
Ole only upon theory which be expressed but IN myth ana
ymbo and which, everywhere and all times the my ana
OILS which men have tried portray their deepest Peceo
Q IN some form express
he scriptures of the who have been and gone-ue p
tIrN the
e eoec doctrines of old phiosphes the inner meaning o g
ue religions dognac constitutions Of Ecnlenica tou