Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-08-27
fRy Mia Taper Maynard.)

fBy Mia Taper Maynard.)
Only a. drop 4ins the great human
stream flowing on to the eternal ocean.
Does this seem an unhappy picture of
ne individual part in the race move
ment? It is only true when the in
1ividual drop is known to embody
snormous possibilities and infinite sig
nificance, but, with this seem to be
rue, no words can express too absO-
lutely the interpedence, the vital unity
and the common destiny of the human
aggregate.
The human mind may be quite un-
conscious of this, may hedge itself
about with sense of independence,
exclusion, superiority, or originality,
but by SO doing it loses the GROWING
blessing that il. is the privilege of NOR
tai to attain. The more nearly our
minds conform in their thought to the
truth of things the greater the exhil-
aration and joy which spring there
from. He is but half alive who, in
this age of the interblended destiny Of
all, and of common life currents, fails
to feel himself one with the human
mass in its inheritance, it's struggle
and its prophetic hopes. To have this
is to live.
A review of the biography of John
Arlington Symonds says of him: "His
int was to get rid of all caste eff
fects, to be simple, to belong to the
crowd. His struggle was to get back
or forward into the crowd"
This is the estimate of a friend and
fellow disciple of Walt Whitman. 1t
was because Symonds felt that
Whitman has aroused in him this pas
sion for the simple, the human and
the common that he regarded him as
his. deliverer. EARLY environment,
education, Inheritance and associa-
tions had all tended to make of him
the stereotyped. dilletante- bloodless,
exclusive, hypercritical But with the
pulsing fever of democracy in his
veins, all his work gained new vital
ity. "The hunger to be-" as he said,
"as simple as God made him, inspired
all his later art" Simplicity is found
on the bedrock of kinship with the
least and the greatest in a common
equality.
r. Childhood should be nourished in
the sense of solidarity.
| Have you guarded your child. so
carefully that it seeks dutifully to
keep away from children you do not
approve? Poor little soul, awake so
early to the drawn skirt and the cruel
fences of separation Could you not
in some way avoid this theft from the
childs inheritance of all-inclusive
friendliness? !
Has the little one learned that there
are ''poor children to be giden doles
fcharity and patronizing and kind
ness? Shall we wonder then, that
class pride and sense of superior
| ity grows?
The, child must learn, nor doubt.
that wrongdoing exists and poverty
the mother who loves her child
and her kind will guard the young
spirit from condemnation, contempt
| Phariseeism or any form of SEPARATE
ness as she would from deformity or
| disease.
Some of us make mistakes, are ignor
ant, unhappy or are poor, but they are
one of us, none the less; and in their
frailities or misfortunes we soc our
own shortcomings or our pain. =,
It were better that child should
| breathe malaria into the body thar
| that its spirit should be surrounded
by an atmosphere of criticism, anita
/ gonism, patronage or any form OF
alienation. Even the ideal "noblesse
oblige" is the very embodiment Of
master and slave, king sand vassals-
/ a kindly mastership, gracious king
ship, to be sure, but involving chasm
like sense of difference.
i The untainted soul of q little child
| goes out with an exuberant Joy in
4 companionship that rebounds invinci
lilly in loving loyalty whatever con
/ flicts mar the peace of the p1aytime
hours. Such joy and loyalty should
be treasured as the first fruits in the
n rich harvest of comradeship awaiting
TILE SON. William Beard is now, /
living, a grown young man struggling
under the terrible handicap Of stii
fened arm, because he, as q little boy
Twas compelled to handle wild belts
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