The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-03-19

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In history we study the individual more
than formerly. The gigantic struggles
by which humanity was solidified are
rapidly becoming thing of the past.
Muscle is rapidly giving place to mlnc.
The definition of Arithmetic was once
the first thing to learn, now it is the last.
We have had extremists in mathemat-
les. Some would have each individual
build the subject of arithmetic from It's
foundation, but we have swung to the OPP
posite extreme and compute interest by
machinery. Some have in times past
been inclined to illustrate every mathe-
matical calculation by objects. Others
are inclined to ignore all object teaching
because the imagination must sooner or
later be developed. A child who can go
to the store and describe infinitely every
object he sees along the way and IN
every room he enters cannot talk lntelll-
gently about a mathematical problem ne
has just solved because educators are
using their brains to see how much they
can take out of arithmetic, and mathe-
NAUTICAL explanations are out OF fashion
Just now. The idea that every child
must pass through the whole history OF
the race has taken firm grip on our ed
ucational system. The child's head IS
filled with Greek stories, when there are
lust as wonderful things taking place in
the world today
The truth of today is stranger and
more attractive than the fiction of the
past. But we have an educational and
a religious theory and that theory
binds us to the traditions of the past.
God speaks just as forcibly to the
man of the present as He ever did to
any Abraham or Moses of the past.
There is sort of an antipathy against
mixing the thoughts of the Bible with
present day affairs. AS matter of fact
the Bible is but an embryo of present day
literature. The history, the advice, the
criticisms of the Bible are all elaborated
and emphasized in the literature OF today.
George VIM. Curtis speaks OF the
various forms of socialism from the
naturalization of land to the national
ization of every comfort and every
necessity of life as the thunder-aeads
that are rising everywhere above our
horizon. He says do YOU see as dis
tinctly the Franklin who holds in his
hand the master key that shall draw
their lightnings harmless to the ground?"
Franklin had no one to study for him.
It is sometimes to be feared that educa-
tional or religious theories may come be-
tween the childish mind and the laws of
nature. The Christ life is the simplest
and the most rational that has been
placed before the world. The civillza-
ton developed before his time was hard
hearted, fierce and tryannical. The flower
of that civilization delighted to see his
rival brother torn by wild beasts in the
arena. He reached out to rule over his
brother for his own ACKNOWLEDGMENT ard
Rome ruled the world. The loving and
peaceful Christ spirit scattered through
out this ancient civilization excited its
enmity. A fierce warfare ragged as be-
tween fire and water. The fire of love
became so deeply rooted in human ma
ture that nothing could exterminate it.
But both parties became SO exhausted by
the conflict that it took thousand years
called the Dark Ages to mature the
embryo of Christianity enough to give
it any appreciable standing in the world.
When mankind finally recognized the
true genius of the race as exemplified in
the life of Christ, growth began the
final results of which can not now be
foretold. Every modern industry is
founded on a knowledge of the methods
of nature. And man had no logical con-
ception of the fundamental principles Of
nature till they were revealed in the life
of Christ. The human body illustrates
railway system, and that in turn illus
trates the universe. In each case there
is the seat of intelligence found in the
brain of man or in the president of the
railway system or in the God of the uni
verse. There is nerve system connect
ing the extremities of the body with the
brain.
There is similar system of communi-
co+;on a~+ord,no throuoh a railway svs.