The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-18

formers continually stir revolt.
all this is moved say with the
British orator Let pause. To rebel, to fOment
FORM up a social fermentation these things are
well enough well enough in themselves and in their eff
fecs and sign life, but after all may out as
wind fury signifyng nothing. Merely strike at
evil, prohibit sin. often eventuate in harm and
not good Merely ahead reforming without refer
the ideal Of the social whole often more
wreckage than salvage.
Goethe said Men change but man remains same"
There in humanity certain fixed laws certain funda
principles which abide through all changes and
which the unmoving stars according to
which the social reformer must shape his course These
certantie the ignoring of which will often
prophet wreck the whole of civilization
for the sake of an idea The Germans have saying
about throwing the baby with the bath and that is
just precisely what happens when set sail vOy-
age without guiding by the pole
social development. reform may be good in
itself in application The reformer often
pull the temple of the Phistnes down on the heads OF
himself and friends we'll the enemy All of which
is to say that he up with the rebels had best
very that his scheme of reconstruction is in har
mony with the fixed facts of human nature.
These social permanencies as old as man. They
lie at the foundations the world and with
age evolved from the brute AS desert sand
storms sweep mpoteny the face of the unchang
ing sphinx temporary changes surface revolutions the
fall dynastes and of civilizations, pass light
those things that endure There they stand from
Everlasting everlasting unchangng and unmoVed and
is
they to
There is hunger Across onehaf of all the activities
living the amoeba to man may be in
this single sentence, THE search for food An
empty belly may upset empire. solitary woman
walked down the streets of Paris beating drum and
crying Bread" in doleful voice and it was that
cry which precptated the crash that finally changed
France nation of Feudalism to one of Capitalism
Let that nation in which there that work
but feed. Nemesis is bounding it Food is the
primal need and there nothing sacred hungry
Any system which fails plentiful supply
of system that cannot stand though armies BACK
it
And next to hunger is sex. Food maintains the indi
vdual sex perpeuates the race Science is only begin
ming reveal the determining part which sex plays IN
society; next to food it is the mghtest
glowing focal point gathers up the racial
will live and system which fails TO conform tse
to sex's ancient will be shrveed as in flame.
Another social certainty is the family This is un
doubtedy fixture. From the very beginnings OF the eVo
uonary processes the holy trinity OF father motner
child has the cell of which the social organisms
is hni)t History has achieved result than
this that society will survive in proportion as keeps the
family strong Walter Bagehot says, The nations
with thoroughly compacted family system have possess
ed the earth"
Along with these in essentially that other per-
manencv freedom Like tree the human must have
room to spread himself and Deny him the prlveg
of normal development and your plan for your social
system an inevitable decay He must have the freedom
to think; he have the freedom Of an untrammei
led social ntercourse he cannot live without free
dom to obey his conscience.
In these others lie the germs of all those
social ceraintes harmony with which every plan of
change must adapt itself Programs OF reform like cap
tive balloons are tethered these enduring reates
they are about within these fixed limits but
farther they go To keep the true to them
ever the task craftsmanship and all other forms of
human guidance
Feeling the truth of all planned to offer
series of these social certaines Our effort
will present simply and clearly those things which
all accept take for granted Those first
principles clearly in mind honest and sincere
person will seldom go dangerously astray.