El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08
GERMAN Protestant Clergy Exalts
" Autocracy's VIII Above VIII of God
Outstanding Germany Complete
Military Corporation the Part of the Lead
ershp of the ReIgiOnist Group to Be Found Anywhere
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something that exists outside the man
himself-whether we speak Of man as
individual or biological or generic.
II is not outside the man In the sen<e
than an Ethiopian's skin rs outside
the Ethiopian, or leopard spots are
outside the leopard. II is not outside
in the sense of being an outside part
Of him Rather, il is outside IN the
sense Of being apart from him. and a
thing which he can put OH ana can
put on, and can change pretty mqcn
to suit either his finances or ms
fancy.
However, Il is in this external ar
rangement that there Is lodged the
supreme authority recognized IN hu-
man affairs Il is in the nation that Is
placed the power TO rule II is in the
nation as an external authority
rather than in the nature OF man tnaI
the highest authority over civilized
humanity at present is vested
From all of which, naturally
enough. arises the question why is
this the case2 and how did IL come TO
be2 Let us go back for moment IN
to the world Of antiquity TO the point
where the first nation appeared
Here we see not only what occurred
in that case but also in the case OF
every subsequent nation down TO the
birth Of nations I'm the western hemls o
phere. What took place was TINS
the tribe became corporation
hack To The First Nation.
Innumerable centuries before this
time the tribe had developed as an
ENLARGED form of the family The
tribe comprised the whole number OF
a tribesman's fellow beings To him
his tribe contained the entire number
Of good people living The tribe was
a community Of equals Tt was a de-
mocracy Of brothers But outside ths
tribe there were only dogs and devils
They were worthless enemies OF man
Furthermore the tribesman'E god
disliked everybody outside his own
tribe. He liked his own tribe because
il was Of the same divine nature as
himself. and il was in virtue Of this
fact that the tribe contained the only
good people. Hence, the tribal goa
participated in all the tribal rivalries
and ancestral tribal 1euds OF ms
community.
within the tribe the relations OF
the rrihesmen one toward another
were almost ideal It is no accident
that the traditions Of every ancient
people contain the legends or a gold
en- age and that the fondest nope OF
all these races has been that u might
be returned TO, or by some means re-
stored again. There the order Of q
benevolent household prevailed
throughout the tribal circle. There
was practically no law, and there was
almost no need OF any Common
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ism. and the common blood was not
only sacred. il was the supreme sane
titv-ir was the blood or the deity
His blood was IN the veins OF every
member OF the tribe. The only crimes
were violations Of the tribal blood
All other offenses were regarded as
the shortcomings Of brothers and " ere
dealt with without harshnes-
Individuals were not individuals
They were but parts, leaves on an an
cestral tree It was in the tribe and
not in the Individual that the true
life was thought TO suosist The
blood is the life" was the universal
formula that was used TO describe
the bond OF unity. Every individual
had but a part OF It. MS lie was
but a share in an indivisible unit
Bearing On mind that what We have
lust described was not merely what
obtained in the case Of one or two or
a few peoples like the Hebrews. or
the Greeks OF the Romans. but that,
on the contrary. It was the cOnui-
IN che case OF every CIVILIZED people
that has existed since time began, let
us observe the evolution OF society
from the tribal to the national stage
In the middle Of the tribal period
OF the past OF all civilized peoples is
encountered a formidable innovating
factor whose consequences are so
vast as TO successfully defy all our
ordinary processes of comprehension.
It made its appearance with the force
of an earthquake, or OF q tidal wave
that altered the entire mental land
scape OF the tribesman, arrested, and
disOrdered the tribal consciousness,
and literally displaced the whole
structure Of the tribal life 50 that
the center OF its gravity fell outside
the foundations on which IL had been
erected
Applied 10 Il PaEo-
What happened vas very much like
the state Of affairs we FL PasO peo-
pie would have on hand in a sup
posed case such as this; Surprising
a flood OF the Rio Grande were TO
take all the buildings OF the city OF
Fl Paso with all the people OF the
city along with the buildings. carry
them down stream little way and
deposit them in perfect order but
with this difference, that they were
left on the other side Of the river,
and on the other side Of the interna-
tional boundary line. in the state OF
chihuahua and in the country OF
location Of the city Of FL PasO before
such an event represent tribal
blood" I'm our illustration. and II you
viii let the location Of the buildings
and the population OF the city after
the flood represent private property
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tratiOn OF the sort Of changes that
took place I'm the evolution Of every
people when the tribes became ma
ton All the changes came as the
immediate and direct results Of pri-
waite property
Private Property" Works Change.
Before private possessOrship -
which developed as a coincidence Of
the development of agriculture in a
fixed place OF abOde-the community
subsisted, as we have already shown,
In the form OF a kinship. Private
property got the better OF kinship
and over Il in authority established
country It got the better OF the
common blood" and over IL in au-
thOrity. Property established the
commonwealth" It took the tribal
brotherhood and made 1t citizenship.
alty-his loyalty TO the tribal deity,
the "all father" and made it over into
loyalty 10 a "fatherland.' 1t took the
tribesmans' deity himself and
changed the most Of his god from
Father into Lord II took the
tribesman out from under the inner
law OF his gOd-an inner law which
was an expression Of his sense Of or
gauic union with his fellows as a
brother. and Il cast him upon an eN-
ternal law arising from the demands
Of pOssessOrship. It brought him into
frequent contest and clash with his
Fellows by setting up personal gain
as goal Of living 1t weaned the
trihesman from the breast OF nature,
and disengaged him from her lead
ing strings, and shut him up within
walls in houses and cities and pre-
occupied him with himself It insti-
tuted slavery. Il cOmmerclaliZed I
woman as an instrument OF pleasure. /
in the marriage market and in the
brotEeL It interrupted the equal par