Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1910-02-03
FATAL TO PROGRESS
GRAVE DANCER IN MAKING LIFE
TOO EASY.
Mans Energies ard Usefulness De-
seispee By s;rsssle-ttissory Shows
Unwissor % the Psterrai sys-
ter % Government.

What sort OF creature would man
become u an omnipressnt. powerful.
protecting influence watched over him
IN his walks and his rides. At his play
and at bis work, Would not the man
% treated az child soon become
thoughtless and improvident as
child. confidinE for all the good Of
lie In the protection accorded him
and finally claiming u as a right and
rs withdrawal as a erime- Remem-
ber that while u may be permitted 10
doubt whether the monkey became
the man by struggle and the expert
ence Of years. We yet know that the
savage has developed into the civilized
man BY the survival 81 the fttest. by
the elimination Of the weak. and that
the rule seems 10 hold good In the
mental and moral kingdoms as well
as In the ruder and more strenuous
battles Of the muscles
The legions enforced the Roman
peace upon the world. and what fol
lowed, Civilization grew soft and
corrup,-the superiority OF It's arms
and its kno~ledge proved insufhcient
10 protect II. and from the icy forests
OF the north swept the storm OF say
age strength and brute force. deeiares
q writer In the New Orleans Picayune.
Miracles could not save the church
when armies failed the throne: all for
which man had labored for centuries
was swept away and darkness brood
ed over Europe till another beginning
could be founded on the relics Of the
old. Il peace desirable- Enough Of
doubt fingers in the question TO make
US careful how are give to Law for the
individual the protecting care that
seems fatal 10 mans energies and use
fulness in the mass.
II We could eliminate from clyiiixa-
ton the sports that MAIN or slay, the
drinks or foods that injure. the naked
ness that leaves disease behind. and
the poisoned airs that Stay at hand.
can NE be sure that man would b.
saved and not annihiiated. Once civ
ilization set the church in the position
Of responsibility only to learn that
even the church could play the tyrant:
snail we trust science after The failure
OF the church.
Our ancestors began 10 look for q
savage foe behind every tree as soon
as the boy set out with a rife to find
the meat for the breakfast table: we
md football a game too dangerous for
our sons. In contempt Of germs and
microbes the soldier Of yesterday
marched out TO the field Of battle and
kept q stout heart: no~ be dies before
lie can leave his own soil and NE I'd
hft our hands in prayer. knowing that
the nicrObe Il too powerful for us
The southern soldier q the SOS faced
armies whose recruiting ground en-
bracet the World ard he kept thea
back for four long years TIN he was
stricken tn the rsAr. row the asfhori-
tiss q the n&fionAl army report that
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