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

II.
learn by hearing from the father and mother their mistakes
Each child must make its mistakes and be taught only
by experience
But will that last forever9
When you the forms of animal life giving birth
to creatures fully equipped and independent you be-
heve that when the human practically just born this
planet shall have lived here few hundreds thousands
millions OF years That the human child Will be born with all the
material knowledge stored away and have
oep the discovering of unknown truths working fields?
We base this editorial upon an article bv Sir William Ram
say the number of Hearsts Magazine advise
intelligent thoughtful readers to get the magazine this month
and every month 1t is published for those who are interested
in realities, those who capable of thought.
In the article referred to- Sir William Ramsay describes
both in the animal world and among human beings indications
OF certain power OF mind of knowledge born in the newly
created animal apart from all teaching experience
He says, concerning the inhabitants Of Burmah:
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gen by the thousands although the perhaps
1t is 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 birth strongly
pressed upon it, and that these should and ap
pear in the child without any teaching.
There doubt that the children of savages recognize
their accord the danger poisonous reptiles and other an
mas to which the civilized child be Indifferent except af
ter the experience of a bite.
animal world the fact that the brain of the new an
ma born with exact wonderful knowledge not disputed
that fact is of intense interest to human beings who
that the human itself may develop one day in such
to have the children born with education
in excess OF that which they after years of school
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 saw its own mother. The eggs
are laid and the mother who lays the dies before they
Each mud wasp begins its career as did Adam in the
Garden of Eden with nobody back of him far knows
When the mud wasp ready she selects good place to
lay her Then she goes off and selects fat caterpillar
She intends that the caterpillar young wasps
when the latter hatch out She puts that caterpillar beside the
that she has laid the eggs and the caterpillar
and away leaving food for the young unborn wasp
some human mother might go out for days work leaving
bread and butter the table and saying Johnny eat that
when you get hungry.
The wonderful thing that the mother wasp does
the caterpillar she killed it. would decayed
by the time the young wasps arrived.
The mother szes the caterpillar and carefully sngs
just back of the head between two of the little rings that
the caterpillar body
This stuns the caterpillar makes it impossible for it to
move or struggle, but does not kill it.
And while the wasp eggs are Matching the caterpillar
dered helpless but killed by the poison lies ALIVE
waiting for the little wasps hatch and it.
Presently they hatch, they eat it, and scatter.
The wonderful thing that each of these wasps
having the thing done having had lessons from
its mother from any goes when time
lays her eggs finds fat caterpillar stngs exactly
the scientific way and puts away with the eggs
having been told how to do it.
What fine thing would be for the children of
beings they could be born with knowledge that Some
of them are born WITH UNUSUAL KNOWLEDGE
Some have musical power which that the brain
fore birth developed knowledge OF harmony.
Some children compose music correctly when they
most too young to read
Other children have a phenomenal mathematical faculty
and do sums that would puzzle their elders
So far, man brain is really too big for his body.
He a timid, frightened monkey-man running away
from everything developing his brain rapidly order to make
up for physical weakness He has been thinking only
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