The Detroit times., 1913-03-11
ON BOARDTHE GOOD SHIP EARTH"
Artch No. S2-SOCLAL OLD ACE AVID DEA1H.
BY HERBERT QUICK.

lor the historians measuring Instruments When the
Roman Empire staggered down TO its fall like great.
magnificent dying beast, il composed OF the
sort or men who lived under Numa Pompius No
change takes place in the individuals composing a
society which prevents the organization from achiev-
Ing life long the endurance OF the earth itself
There is analogy in nature, either, which would
lead expect beginning. elimination and an
end of people. The bird societies OF the islands OF
the sea last forever The community OF muskrats In
a Minnesota swamp has lived, just as II lives since
the building OF the Pyramids The prairie-dog town
which persists in spite of gun trap and poison on the
arid plains OF the United states WAS hourfshfng
community when Columbus landed at Cat Island III
the earth continues yield its food the animal COM
munity, while its individual membership changes
constantly by birds and deaths lives like the cataract
which. changing momently is always the same.
Indeed the human society in it's simpler and more
animal forms are almost stable AS the empires or
animals There is no infancy, growth maturity and
decline OF the tribe. II goes on and on Ike
wolf pack hive of bees 1t Is only the civilized
society which wakes. wanes and dies.
DR.. Alexis Carre has learned how TO keep the cells
alive Of which bodies composed, outside the
body Bits OF lung. liver, kidney muscle live and
grow under the microscope But not forever TOT the
cells rid themselves OF substances which finally poison
them and bring their lives to an end IL is the Ola
biological story-no living thing can exist IN the
waste products of its own body.
So II Is with nations. empires and communities
In way. under civilized conditions they secrete
poisons which destroy the organism. Those poisons
slavery plutocracy monopoly inequality. exploit
taon. poverty. luxury discomfort. degeneration and,
finally national death. DR. Carrel takes the growing
cleanses IL OF its poisoned surroundings. Then he
gives IL tissue juice in which TO grow--and 1t
becomes young again--it grows faster than ever.
The problem which civilization has never solved
Is that OF cleansing body polite OF its toxins and
thus keeping il forever young That IL can be done
there Is no reason doubt Civilization is natural
or II would be forever repeating itself in human
history. We have not found the way to make II
petual: that Is all The empire, according TO the
universal laws OF evolution is beset by greater
dangers than is the tribe-beng more complex II
tends more strongly to disntegrate. But as man Is
imperiously hidden by instinct to form nations and
states ne must. by reason nnc out tho way 10 build
them on bases Of everlasting prosperity.
The evils which wreck civilizations pretty we'll
understood now. They lie mainly In the tendencies
OF In communities to gain advantages over each
other and to them 10 ends OF oppression and ex
plotation Society splits into two antagonistc wings
One composed Of rich and powerful degenerates the
other OF poor and destitute degenerates.
A new has dawned. We have still these two
degenerate wings but have immense middle
class and, permeating all classes, we have a new
science new love Of truth. altruism, a
social conscience and fund OF arranged knowledge
greater than that possessed by all other COM
bined We shall find the right way Of collective life
this time and blessed immunity from the death that
overlook the civilizations Of the past