The sun., 1916-09-03
BY DR.. RAPHAEL DUBOIS.

q ONE $500 years ago there lived
-. a sage whose name Is still uni
Nersally recognized. II was
Pythagoras who, recognizing that the
human body Is directly dependent
upon all else, and that the actions Of
life AZ well as all the phenomena Of
nature arc intimately interviewer, con-
tended that everything is regulated by
quantities and numerical proportions.
To-day there is not Il biologist worthy
OF the namo who could honestly de.
fend tho contrary idea. All recognize
or have been compelled 10 recognize
tho direct relationship existing be.
tween living creatures and the cosmic
environment.
! willingly put aside all OF the prox-
arnal causes which brought about the
war. and with which most persons
ordinarily lake up their time exclu-
sively. They are, on the contrary. the
distant, deep, original causes with
Ws''s o'Ah Nl' AA''s AAo .
roots. not the blossoms OF blood OF
that plant OF death.
Many of these causes are sim un-
known 10 us, but there are others Of
which We can estimate the influence
upon all living things. day by day,
hour by hour. minut" by minute. In
tho first rank; OF these cuusts are tho
Influences which result from the daily
rotation of the earth upon is axis,
annually.
What may we not suppose concern
lng tho fact tAat no one wishes 10
accept tho responsibility for the mon
strous val which at this moment
bathes Europe IN blood. and Asia as
well. and that we might term the wal
If irresponsibles"? Proudhon believed
In q law Of alienation Of periodicity
for peace and war, Peace and war
ais wrote In 1869. "arc correlatives Of
0ne another, affirming equally their
reality and necessity, being two master
functions of human Kind. They alter
nate in history As waking and sleeping
In the life Of individuals, as expendi-
ture OF strength and It's rcucwa in the
workman. as production ana consump-
flor In political economy. Peace on
einues and IS war and war i and rom
tinues to DO peace, It i goldfish 10
SIMS gine that they arc mutually cX
elusive"
And in fact tho displacement o'
collective humanity takes place VIC
GENTLY. not on.y alternating with
periods OF peace. but Tho law !tself OF
these periods does not seem impossible
to determine, and this would be ar
1rrefutable proof tia Wal Is "A cosmic
phenomenon. wh!sh does not depend
Mt all upon the human VIII. but ,c
which man submits !ust.nctively, I'M
consciously, Just as animals and even
vegetable do in their m~,c;nl.ons.
AS 10 the cri,diC.ty If the d!sp,aco'
Sments Of collective humanity a very
suggestive rcinayh wds maLu by Col
Delaney IN an article published II
1900 that tho colonial aaucAationa oi
Trance follow a kind Of L ytAm. witt
q fixed ~poriodic.ty the range OF wAlcl
no has figured out precisely at tel
years 302 days four hours and forty
six minutes. THIS ftsurc. almost dis,
puiet!ng In It's precision. has plainly
no other signiiirance than that of ~
abstraction iiHci by mathematical cal
culation.
Col. Do.auuc5 table becomes st.l
moro suggcstiNG II Wc add the war,
of 1901 and the Commune, til,
war Of lsli-, and cous.Irr the con
quest OF Morocco, which lie has, =,
20 speak, ~pIuple,!ed IN his curious
work; 1880, Algeria; isi2. Tahiti!
3s53. New 'aloIpu.a. lHGO-G>. Guinea
ObOck, Cochin emma, tdmbudII, 1870
~. FrancO-lrIts.an war, the Com
mune; Issl-Si. Tuu.,, '.nsp. .udaG
Amman AMI 1onIIu. 1898. MadaGas
car; 1906, Morocco; 1915, row Franco
German war. tn" pres nt conflict.
This author also rol's attention 4
the fact that Ill" sun tputs hay
reached then mlS ma 80 llr time
eorresponding with th,,c colonial cn
terprises.
This Ia not ar. We are living ~
che surface ol an .lalncrSc .lcctr"