Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-17

The human mind insists upon account.
! ing for things. There was want and
poverty, famine and pestilence, and
man ascribed these calamities to a
great power above him.
mankind is an organic, correlated
whole. family of brothers and sisters.
Socialism is based upon this compre-
hensive view of the past with its er-
rors and cruelties the misery or the
present, are incidents of development,
|-birthpains Of an eternal life.
every form from lowest to high
est, expresses the one life and also
limits it. The struggle for existence
between these forms constitutes the
history of life Seen in part, unre-
lated to the whole, it appears evil.
Seen from the heights of race con
seriousness, its purpose appears and It's
contradiction are reconc1led.
Fundamentally Democratic.
SOCIALISM is fundamentally demo-
cratic. 1t excludes none. Govern
ments, social and religious institu-
lions are temporary forms embodying
the time spirit.They are subject to
change, and give way to every higher
form expressing the great life.
SOCIALISM recognizes the value OF
the religions and PHILOSOPHERS OF the
past, strives to apply their vital prln-
ciples to practical life. The nine
teenth century scientifically estab-
lished evolution as natures or GODS
method, the method Of the one life.
There is no impossible gulf between
matter and spirit They are the two
aspects of the one reality. LA
Human mind is so constituted as to
see everything in dual aspect; heat
and cold, objective and subjective,
good and evil matter and mind, body
and soul, time and space, life and
death.
"Man was deceived by this apparent
duality. He believed in the existence
of two antagonistic principles, hence
a merciless conflict. confusion and
chaos instead Of order and law; war,
not peace; hate, not love; competition,
not cooperation. The twentieth CEN
tury will apply the principles OF an
all inclusive, vital monism to every
department Of human activity
"The contradiction so glowingly evil
dent in creeds and PHILOSOPHERS, the
customs,a written and unwritten laws
are due to the conflict between the
social and anti-social tendencies or
instincts Of man.
"Primitive man was for himself. re-
gardless Of the veal or woe Of others.
Hunger and cold taught him the creed
Of selfishness and the economics OF
greed.
..He did not know that there was
plenty for all and that nature would
open her boundless treasures to the
collective will of man.
Modern knowledge.
Modern man knows this and pro-
poses to reorganize society upon this
basis Every form, mans for in
stance, has become what it is by a
gradual process The law of differen-
tation is of profound significance. It
implies the presence of a power or
energy within the organism which de-
velopes it to ever greater perfection.
This is the cosmic urge, force of
nature, God,-call it what you will, and
is the ultimate course Of evolution.
From the time the earth was molten
mass until we begin to realize the
glorious ideals Of brotherhood, there
has been definite line of progress
MAN is destined to higher evolu-
ton than we can conceive. The fam
|ily.-father, mother, child.-is the type
of a perfected socialism, and when
once society provides every family
with favorable material, conditions,
progress will be rapid, and the vast
brood OF evils which afflict and ham,
per mankind will disappear.
"There are two forces involved in
every movement: the theological and
the material. Marx demonstrates this