Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12

a page,
everything must be written upon it. The child
by hearing and mother of their mistakes
Each child must make its mistakes and be taught only
But will that last forever7
When you the lower forms of animal life giving birth
to creatures fully equipped and independent you
heve that when the human practically just born this
planet shall have lived here for few hundreds of thousands
millions of years that the human child will be born with all the
material knowledge stored away, and have
cept the discovering OF unknown truths working fields?
We base this editorial upon article by William Ram
in the current number of Hearsts Magazine We advise
intelligent thoughtful readers to get the magazine this month
and every month published those who are interested
in realities, those who are capable of thought
In the article referred to- Sir William Ramsay describes
both in the animal world and among beings indications
Of certain power of mind of knowledge born in the newly
created animal apart from all teaching or experience
He says concerning the inhabitants of Burmah:
not s1's s o0T S :y s s BI @ sng sso
ossb P6oua events :" o so%s Tes' S
Then says observations made upon swallows
Their nest was under the caves and for Ons the parents fed
men to leave their ns snd without practice each
~h3ut the least hossoT entered the Just like old bird The
relation Of brain and have lain the germ
the perhaps partio
extremely likely that the little boy of Burmah child
bred for along the limited line of thought should
nave certain ideas and associations before birth strongly i'm
pressed it, and that these should be transmitted
pear in the child without any teaching
There that the children of savages recognize of
their accord the danger in poisonous reptiles other
mas to which the civilized child would be Indifferent except
ter the experience of a bite
In the animal fact that the brain of the new an
lma born with exact wonderful knowledge disputed
And that fact of intense interest human beings hope
that the human race itself may develop day in such
way to have the children born with readymade education
in of that which they possess after years
ing.
Suppose that child could come into this world wise in
proportion to its possibilities does the child of the mud
wasp.
No baby mud wasp ever saw its own mother The eggs
befo theV
hatch
Each new mud wasp begins its career as did Adam in the
Garden of Eden with nobody back of him knows
When the mud wasp ready she selects good place
lay her Then she goes off and selects fat caterpillar
She intends that the caterpillar shall feed young wasps
when the latter hatch out She puts that caterpillar beside
that she has laid the eggs and the caterpillar
human mother might go out for days leaving
bread and butter the table and saying Johnny that
when you get hungry"
The wonderful thing that the wasp does not KILL
the caterpillar If she killed it. it would be decayed
by the time the young wasps arrived.
The mother wasp ezes the caterpillar carefully stings
just back of the head between two of the little form
the caterpillars body.
This the caterpillar makes impossible for it to
move or struggle but does not kill it.
And while the wasp eggs Matching the caterpillar
dered helpless but not killed by the poison there ALIVE
waiting for the little wasps to hatch out and it.
Presently they hatch they eat it, and scatter
The wonderful thing is that each of these wasps
having the thing done having lessons from
It's mother or from any goes out when the time
lays her eggs finds fat caterpillar stings exactly in
the scientific way and puts away with the eggs
having been told how to do it.
a fine thing would be for the children of human
beings they could be born with knowledge of that kind Some
of them born WITH UNUSUAL KNOWLEDGE
Some have musical power which the brain be-
fore birth developed knowledge of harmony.
Some children music correctly when they are al
most young read.
Other children have phenomenal mathematical faculty
and do sums that would puzzle their elders
So far, mans brain is really too big for his body.
He a tmid frightened monkey man. running away
from everything developing his brain rapidly order to make
up for physical weakness He has been thinking man only
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