The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-12
WORLD
MOVEMENT


piete n terrible when IL comes that
We ann be certain that the answer
will be in the negative; but of this
we can be certain, that we shall not
go down in ruin unless we deserve
and earn our end. There is no nec
essity for US to fall; We can hew out
Cur desti1y for ~ourselevs, IL only we
have the wit and the courage and the
honesty.
Personally, l do not beiieves that
our civilization will fall. / think that
on the whole we nave grown better
and not worse. I think that on the
whole the future holds more for us
than even the great past has held.
But, assuredly. the dreams of golden
glory in tie future will not come true
I~nlecs. high Of heart and strong of
hand, ty our own mighty deeds we
make them come true. We can not
afford to develop any one set OF quail
tiles, any one set of activities, at the
cost of seeing others. equally neces
sarv. at-ophied. Neither the military
efficiency Of the MogUl. the e~xtraor-
dinarv business efficiency of the
PIoenician. nor the subtle and pol
isled intellect of the Greek availed to
aver tGotiu ~
w h men of today and the fu-
ture, need many qualities if we are
to do orr work well. We need, first
of al. and most important of all. the
qualities which stand at h base of
individual, of family life. the funda-
mental and essential qualities-the
honely, everyday. all-important vir-
tues II the average man will not
work. if nc had not in aim the will
and ire owe to be 4 good husband
and father: if the average woman is
not a gooG housewife. a good mother
of MANI healthy children, hen the
state will topple. will go down. 10
matter what may be its brilliance of
artistic development or material
achievement. But these lonely quail
tiles are not enough. There must, in
addition. De that power of ~organiZa-
ton, that power of working in COM
mon for a common end. which the
German people have shown in such
sigma: fashion during the last half
century. Moreover. the tlings of the
spirit are even more important than
the things of the body. We can we'll
do without the hard intolerance and
arid intellectual -barrenness of what
was worst in the theological systems
of the past but there has never been
greater need of a aigh and fine reIig-
ious spirit thar at the present time.
| So. while we can laugh good-humor-
eddy II some of the pr~etensions of
modern philosophy in it's various
branches, it would be worse han fol
" on our part TO ignore our need of
s.@AIlt fz-l.~ ~ --.
great Frederick once said that if he
wished to punish a province ne would
leave 1T to be governed by philoso-
piers: the e had in it an element
of justice; and yet no one better thar
the great Frederick knew the value
IF phIlos1 phers, the value of the men
of science, men of letters. -pen of art.
t would be n bad thing indeed to ac-
cept Tolstoy as a guide in social and
moral matters: but it would also be
a bad thing not to have Tolstoy. not
TO profit by the lofty sid of his
teachings. There are plenty of scien
tifc mon whose hard arrogance,
whose cynical materialis1. whose
dogrpatic Intolerance put tlem on a
level with the bigoted MEDIEVAL &c
clesiasIicism which they denou1ce.
Yet our deb to scientific men is in
c~alculable, and our civilization of to-
day would have bereft from it all that
which most highly distinguishes it
if the work of the great masters of
science during the past four centur-
les were now undone or forgotten.
Never has philanthropy. Hunanitar-
ia1ism, seen such development as
now. and though we must all beware
of the folly, and the viciousness no
worse than folly, which marks the
believer in the p~erfectahility Of mar
when his heart runs away with his
head. or when vanity usurps the place
CT conscience, vet we must remember
also That il is only by working along
the lines laid down by the philan-
.thropists. by the lovers of mankind,
that We can be sure of lifting Our civ
ilization to a higher and more perma-
uent plane OF well-being than was
ever attained by any preceding civ
iliZatfon. Unjust war is to be abhor-
red: but woe to the nation that does
not make ready to hold its own in
tisne of need against all who would
harm it: and woe thrice over to the
nation in which the average man
loses the fighting edge. loses tle pow
er to serve as a soldier IL the day of
need should arise.
1T is no impossible can to build
IN a civilization in which morality,
ethical development. and a feel
ing of brotherhood shall all alike be
and from the ~rancorOus and evil mas