The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-21
The Poisons of Humanity

Have you ever stopped to consider your ma
terial being, your body d imply peculiar sort
OF laboratory retort containing various chemicals
in combination?
Modern science easily proves this to be the
case A large per cent of the human body is COM
posed of water and water in turn, is made up OF
the two elements, hydrogen and oxygen. The
bones are Of lime and at the base Of lime is tbs
element calcium. In the blood are the elements
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. One might go on
unendingly Analysing the constituent elements OF
the body in this way.
Until they came to the mind-the brain may
be analysed chemically, but the mind, never
That lies in the realm of the spiritual of psy-
chology, for analysis.
And yet our minds sometimes are allowed tc
destroy our bodies.
Thoughts that we'll might be termed the pois-
of humanity are nourshed in our brains al
the instigation of mind. Thoughts of envy
anger, hatred fear of unfair gain, of treachery
of sensuality, all that host Of thoughts that make
our boast Of civilization empty one, pois-
onous. They weaken not only the body in whose
brain they find Judgement, but they also weak
en- all humanity individual after individual be-
comes infected with these poisons and in turn
passes them on to other individuals.
IL i" IL
The world has reached stage of develop
ment where clear thinking is demanded as never
before.
The machine age, scant seventy-five years
old, has brought into existence problems upon
whose solution depends the future of the race AT
a time when concentrated attention these
problems is imperative on the part of the people
they find themselves weak in understanding anc
fhghty of fixed purpose.
The clear thinking observer sees the people
being led hither and thither among the branches
of the tree of iniquity. They very slow in ap-
preaching the trunk. They are far in their
thoughts and understanding from the roots.
They pray to God for release from their burd
and expressions. But prayers from twisted
and distorted minds do not seem to reach to God
Dimly they realize that God is equality of oppor
tunity among the host of His other attributes
In their conscious unconscious prayers how.
ever, they seldom ask for equality. They pray
that they may be given the role of OppressOrS
and that equality may be approached by switch
ing privilege from the shoulders of their op
pressors to their own.
God will not answer such prayers. He knows
they come from minds that have absorbed ant
transmitted the posons of humanity. He knows
that switching special privilege enables equality
of opportunity to be approached, to be reached
and to be passed on the way to the rocky havel
of inequality of opportunity again.
The people are forever jumping at conclus
ions. Their own or those of so-called leaders
History will show that wrong conclusions out
number right ones ten to one. Is it any wonde
then that humanity's progress is slow?
Humanity is its own master and its owl
slave.
Master of its conclusions, it allows itself t
be enslaved by the wrong ones. And it take
centuries to arrive at the right one.
The world and all that is in it is for humani
tvs use on the basis of what each individually
ability and use to his or her fellows entities hin
or her to. The worlds resources were not mean
to be the monopoly of gilded few or of a dral
majority. They are for all and each should b.
allowed to take out only what one puts il
in service and usefulness to ALL
The world belongs to humanity. It is no
meant for class composed of plutocrats or TO
a class composed of socialists. Either mean
monopoly. And monopoly is the sum of all tn
poisons that plague and torment humanity.
Equality of opportunity is the open sesame t.
the life of real freedom on earth. 1t is the long
sought antidote to the poisons of humanity, tn
searchings for which pull humanity hither an
thither, up and down. Always close at hand i
is our most unattainable treasure because w
look for it with our eyes blindfolded by malice
jealousy, envy, unfair advantage, unfaithfulnes
and the host of other threads that go to make tn
weave of the cloth we use for the blindfold.