Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
Some Day Babies Will Be
Born Wise.
In Ages Come Human Beings Birth Viii Know More Than
Any Man Knows Now.
Copyright
Copyright 1879


being just in the beginning of
development the mud wasp the ant and other in
reached the highest development of which they
The saddest thing in the education beings
fact that each child must begin at the beginning and learn every
Each little baby learns to walk learns to avoid the fire.
learns talk The mind starts its life blank page and
everything be written upon it. The child
by hearing father of
Each child must make its mistakes and be taught only
by experience
But will that last fOrever9
When you see the lower forms of animal life giving birth
to fully equipped and independent you be-
ve that when the human practically just born this
planet shall have lived here for few hundreds thousands
millions of years that the human child will be born with all the
material knowledge stored and have work to do
cep discovering of unknown truths working in new fields?
We base this editorial upon article by Sir William Ram
say the current number of Hearst Magazine We advise
intelligent thoughtful readers get the magazine this month
and month 1t is published for those who interested
in realities those who capable of thought.
In the article referred to- Sir William Ramsay describes
of certain power of mind of knowledge born the newly
created animal apart from all teaching experience.
He says concerning the inhabitants of Burmah:
not & sT Which % b Ss 6S s ss'T s Page
pie ard to remember events which had taken the native y
possible memory particular
Then he says of certain observations made upon swallows
an, hs, nest was u1ssE the syS'' and for Ions the fed
S to s.ssSs their ne: e." Without each
nS ne S, sS t the G' qs like aS old 5rd The
SatE 6.a" ard must hsye lain the these birds
by the thousndi although mentioned
extremely likely that the little boy of Burmah child
bred for ages along the limited line of thought should
have certain ideas and associations before strongly
pressed it, and that these should be APP
pear in the child without any teaching.
There doubt children savages recognize of
their accord the danger in poisonous reptiles and other
mals to which the civilized child would indifferent except a
ter the experience Of bite
animal world the fact that the brain of the new an
imal born with wonderful knowledge not disputed
And that fact of human beings who hone
that the human race itself may develop one day in such
way as TO have the children born with education
In excess OF that which they after years of school
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 its own mother. The eggs
are laid and the mother who lays the eggs dies before they
Each new mud wasp begins its did Adam in
Garden of Eden with nobody back of him far
When the mud wasp ready she selects good place
lay her Then she goes off and selects caterpillar
She intends that the caterpillar shall young wasps
when the latter hatch She puts that caterpillar the
eggs that she has laid up eggs the caterpillar
and goes away leaving young unborn wasps
some human mother might go out for days work leaving
bread and butter the table and saying johnny eat that
when you get hungry "
wonderful thing that the mother wasp does not KILL
the caterpillar. she killed it decayed and useless
by the time the young wasps arrived.
The mother wasp the caterpillar carefully stng
Just back OF the head between two of the little that form
the caterpilars body.
This uns the caterpillar 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 lies there ALIVE
waiting Tor the little wasps to hatch out and eat it.
presently they hatch they eat it, and scatter
The wonderful thing is that each of these wasps
having seen the thing done having had lessons from
It's mother or from school teacher goes when the
comes lays her eggs finds fat caterpillar stings exactly
the same scientific and puts away with the eggs
having been told how to do it.
What fine thing would be for the children of human
oegs they could be born with knowledge of that kind
OF them are born WITH UNUSUAL KNOWLEDGE.
some have musical power which that the brain
fore birth developed knowledge of harmony.
Some children compose correctly when they
most too young to read.
Other children have phenomenal mathematical faculty
and can do sums that would puzzle their elders
so FAR man. brain is really too big for his body
he was tlmid, frightened monkey-man, running away
from everything developing his rapidly in order to make