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 1879

That because the human being just the beginning of
development the mud wasp and other
secs have reached the highest development of which they
capable
addest thing the education of beings the
fact that each child must begin at the beginning and learn
Each little baby walk learns to avoid the fire.
learns talk The mind starts its life blank page and
everything must be written upon it, The child
learn by hearing from the father and mother
Each child must make its mistakes taught only
But will that last forever9
When you see 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 here for few hundreds of thousands or
millions Of years. that the human child will be with the
material knowledge stored away and have work do
cep the discovering unknown truths working in new fields?
We base this editorial upon article by Sir William Ram
in the current number of Hearsts Magazine advise
intelligent thoughtful readers get the magazine this month
and every month 1t published for those who 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 human beings indications
of certain power of mind of knowledge born newly
created animal apart from all teaching experience
He says concerning the inhabitants of Burmah:
no, s Which n hs ssS SsT Rs.'T; H"S o ss'
pie remember events taken place in the native VII
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Then he says of certain upon swallows
and " was uTSs[ the caves and for Ions the parents fed
rS drSs.s d their Of nest mes. an" without
~SHGu the least hssso entered the nest gs like old bird The
rson Of brain and have lain the germ
sy.p 3sf thousand although
1t is extremely likely that the little boy of Burmah child
bred for ages along the limited thought should
have certain ideas and associations before birth strongly i'm
pressed it. and that these should be APP
pear in the child without any teaching
There doubt that the children savages recognize of
their accord the danger poisonous reptiles other
mas to which the civilized child would be Indifferent except
ter the experience of a bite
In the animal world the that brain of the new an
mal born with wonderful knowledge is not disputed
And that fact is of intense interest beings hope
that the human race itself may develop day in such
to have the children born with ready education
in excess of that which they 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
are laid and the mother who lays the eggs dies before they
hatch.
Each 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 to
lay her eggs Then she goes off caterpillar
She the caterpillar shall feed her Young wasps
when the latter hatch out She puts that caterpillar beside the
eggs that she has ad covers up the eggs and the caterpillar
some human mother might out for days work leaving
bread and butter on the table and saying Johnny that
when you get hungry
The wonderful thing that the mother wasp does not KILL
the caterpillar she killed it would be deayed useless
by the time the young wasps arrived.
The mother wasp sees the caterpillar and carefully stngs
Just back Of the head between two of the little rings that
the caterpillar body
This stuns the caterpillar makes it impossible for
move or struggle but does not kill it.
And while the wasp eggs Matching the caterpillar
dered helpless but killed by the poison there ALIVE
waiting for the little waspS to hatch out and
Presently they hatch, they eat it. and scatter.
The wonderful thing that each of these wasps never
having seen the thing done having had lessons
its mother from any teacher goes out when the time
lays her eggs finds fat caterpillar ngs exactly in
the scientific way and puts away with the eggs
having been told how to do it.
What fine thing would the children of human
beings they could be born with knowledge that kind Some
of them are born WITH UNUSUAL KNOWLEDGE.
Some have musical power which that the brain be
fore birth developed knowledge of harmony
Some children compose music correctly they are al
most too young to read.
Other children have phenomenal mathematical faculty
and can 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 ayay
from everything developing his brain rapidly to make
PIP for physical weakness He has been thinking only