Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-18
lust HUMAN BEINGS

n EREDTTY environment education, station IN lie,
and associations all to derentate men from
II II one another. There is never campaign In winch
we do not hear much of the labor VOTE Yet experience
has proved quite concusvey that there is no such thing
Laboring men Republicans or Democrats, much as
other Not only but each man is subject TO
influences peculiar to himself He wants protection for
his family good schools for his children low taxes and
good exactly as other do The very fact
that men alike being all human beings is OF itself
proof that they are different By that is meant that it
is human nature for each to seek his good Nee
essa1iy each seeks it in different way. Therefore, the
things that bind men together the very things that
make them differ
So it is that men of one class combine with men of
other classes to get what they think to be the best for
themselves This is but illustration of many lustra
tons that might be given 1t is human nature for man
to act in such way most likely to his own
interests. But the interests of men differ their
thoughts and actions differ Men exactly alike in de-
string the best for themselves and their famies-that is
human nature But they differ widely in their ideas to
what is best and to the proper methods to achieve it.
SO the differences between born out OF the very
likenesses between them. They have common humanity,
but that humanity expresses itself in different ways and
seeks widely different ends 1t is hardly possible to
aggerate the Importance of personality and Individuality
way under the circumstances 1t is impossible to
sandardze humanity since humanity by it's very nature
invoves and implies differences and often of the most
radical nature.
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The falacy under discussion vitiates much of lit
erarv and dramatic criticism 1t is assumed that all men
under certain conditions would act in the way No
theory could be more false. Sometimes it is asked
whether whose wife had deserted him for another
man would act he is represented in certain book
play acting. No say For everything would de-
pend on the character of the man. the character of the
wife, andthe relations between the two. Much would also
depend the emperaments of the parties to the tragedy
their theories OF life, and their moral ideals.
Those who object to the conventional treatment of
draatst novelist guilty of precisely the same mis-
take-namely that of assuming that there is certain
way IN which men and must of necessity act under
given set of conditions There is convenoralizing on
both sides The critics that there are certain
hngs that men and women must must not do precisely
because they are men and women There could not DOS
slbly be more extreme standardzing of humanity
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AS matter OF fact there are no conventional
zers IMAM hose who insist that the characters in books or
plays are not they say ue to nature for thew have
conventlonalzed and standardized human nature and
everything is false that DIVORCES from their conception of
It, while their conception of it is nothing more than tber
thought OF What human nature is-or should be Such
crlcs insist that man could in anv such way
o say such and such things What do they mean9 They
can mean nothing else than that action and speech are
inconsistent with their ideas of what human natre
Is IN oter words, the criticism is absolutely and BADLY
personal These people draw picture that satisfies
thel, and then cooy that every departure from
That picture is departure from truth
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