Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-20


Ter. couldn't you drug me and patch
me instead of all his-vivisection:
few days of drugged and active life
and then the end?"
Fowler thought I'VE are not sure
enough yet to do things like that" he
said
But day is coming when you will
be certain"
Fowler nodded.
lyon make me feel as though I was
the last Of deformity. Deformty is I'M
certainty -inaccuracy. My body works
doubtfully; it is not even sure that 1t
will die or live. suppose the time Is
not far off when such bodies as mine
will no longer be born into the world"
You see." said Fowler after little
pause. lit is necessary that spirits such
as yours should be born into the
world"
II suppose" said Karenin. "that my
spirit has had its use. But if you think
that Is because my body is as it is
think you are mistaken. There is no
peculiar virtue in defect. have al
ways chafed against-all this. If
could have moved more freely and liv-
ed a larger life in health l could have
done more. But some day perhaps you
will be able to put a body that is wrong
altogether right again. Your science is
only beginning. It's subtler thing
than physics and chemistry and it
| takes longer to produce its miracles.
And meanwhile few more Of us must
die in patience"
Fine work is being done and much
Of It," said Fowler. Il can say as
much because l have so little to do
with it. can understand Il lesson, ap-
preciate the discoveries of ADLER men
and use my hands. but those others,
Pigou, Masterton. Lie and the others.
they are clearing the ground fast for
| the knowledge to come. Have you had
time to follow their work p
| Karenin shook his head. but l can
imagine the scope Of it." be said.
I'VE have so many men working
bow," said Fowler. II suppose at pres
ent there must be at least thousand
|
ing, for one who did so in 1900"
mot counting those who keep the
records?"
mot counting those. OF course the
present indexing of research is in it.
self a very big work. and it is only
now that we are getting it properly
done. But already We are feeling the
benefit of that. Since it ceased to be
a paid employment and became a de-
votion, we have had only those people
who obeyed the call of an aptitude at
work upon these things. Here-l must
show you it today because it will in
! terest you've have our copy Of the
encyclopedia index--every week sheets
are taken out and replaced by fresh
sheets with new results that are
brought to us by the aeroplanes Of
the research department. 1t is an in
dex of knowledge that grows continu-
ally an index that becomes continually
truer. There was never anything like
it before"
when came into the education
committee" said Kagenin. that index
of human knowledge seemed an i'm
possible thing. Research had pro-
duced a chaotic mountain of results, in
hundred languages and thousand
different types of publication" He
smiled at his memories. How we
groaned at the job!'
ALREADY the ordering Of that chaos
is nearly done. You shall see."
II have been so busy with my own
work. Yes. shall be glad to see.''
The patient regarded the surgeon fol-
time with interested eyes.
You work here always?" he asked
abruptly.
"No,' said Fowler.
But mostly you work here?'
II have worked about seven years
out of the past ten. At times &C
away-down there. One has to. Al
least, | have to. There is a sort OF
grayness comes over all this, one feels
hungry for life, real. personal, pas
sionate life lovemaking, eating and
drinking for the fun Of the thing, jos
|
laughter-above all, laughter
YES" said Karenin Understandings
"And then, one day, suddenly one
thinks of these high mountains again.
THAT is how l would have lived II
it had not been for my-defects,' sale
Karenin. Nobody knows but those
who have borne it the evaporation Of
abnormality. 1t will be good whe1
you have nobody alive whose bod,
cannot live the wholesome everyday
life, whose spirit cannot come up int
these high places as it Wills"
I'VE shall manage that soon." sale
Fowler
For endless generations man ha:
struggled upward against the indigni
, ties Of his body and the indignities o.
his soul. Pains. incapacities, vile fears
black moods, despairs. How we'll I'v'
known them. They've taken more tim,
than all your holidays. 1t is true. is i
not, that every man is something Of :
cripple and something of a beast? Nv,
dipped little deeper than most. that's
all. It's only now. when be has full!
, learned the truth of that. that he cal
, take hold of himself to be neither beas
, nor cripple. Now that he overcome:
, his servitude to his body, he can fo
the first time think of living the full
? life of his body. Before another gen
Grafton dies you'll have the thing IL
hand. You'll do as you please will
, the old Adam and all the old vestige
from the brutes and reptiles that lurl