Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-01-18
WHERE DOES REASON COME iN7
BY Prof. 9. D. Yearsan

known disease, which Is purely en-
pirical guess work. Why should the
vegetable and mineral world contain
these remedies? The lower animals
certainly have no medicines to take.
They have no hospitals. asylums or
other institutions where they may g.,
for treatment. Surgery. sanitation,
dietics, dentistry. and the prevention
of disease seems to be reasonable.
We have homeopathy based on one
theory and allopathy on another; a
different one for osteopathy. still an.
other for Christian science, these
ideas seem to be pure guesswork.
each denying the theory of the 9th.
ers. 1t has not been sixty years
since patients were bled in the last
stage of tuberculosis. 1t has no,
been two hundred years since kings
and others of the royal families we're
given I've spiders cooked in their
food for the gout.
The North American Indians, by
incantations or exorcism, hoped to
drive out the evil spirit from their
patients. Where does reason come
in?
There are medical schools that de-
ny that calomel acts on the liver.
Sulphur for itch Is the only known
specific after six thousand years of
experimentation.
We allow the clubfooted, bumped
backed. hairlipped. diseased. idiotic.
insanity-tainted. tuberculous, to mar
ry each other. but we have not man
aged live stock in that way. They
have been raised to a higher degree
of perfection by judicious selections.
Where does reason come in?
We build hospitals for the insane,
to take care of the output. We H.
cense men to make and sell intoxi-
cants in order that we may debauch
our humanity. We cannot see the
reason for this. II will make a man
more valuable than gold. yea. than
the golden wedge Of Opha". We
place money above manhood. BY
what process of reasoning can this
be done?
We shoot men into mincemeat for
q little strip Of barren land. Where
does the golden rule; the Lords
prayer; the sermon on the mount.
come in? 20 Justice and Judgment,
thou hast fed to british beast, and
men have lost their reason"
A theoretic government is one es-
tablished by direct Intervention OF
God as the earliest Hebrew govern
ment- Growing out Of this was the
patriarchal, which necesshrially
broke up into tribes and societies
governed by the strongest man In
the tribe. Monarchal forms coming
next. IN which the power of one per.
son was exercised. OF course it was
liable to all kinds of tyranny and op-
preston, in which reason had little
to do. No doubt at first they meant
we'll, but the government gradually
into taxing, grinding
machine, sucking the life blood from
The masses of the common people. In
which the Golden rule played no
part, and reason played much less
part.
An oligarchy is form Of govern
nent in which the favored, or aris- |
ocracy insisted. Instead Of exercis-
ng their reason and love Of their
ubjects. they exercise their taxing. !
tealing. grinding propensities. leav.
ng reason out entirely.
The imperial governments were
to restrict the one man
,ower, but 1t only gave them better
to abandon reason and
his gave them a better chance to
'illage the people and grind them to
overty.
A democracy would seem to be an
deal form of government, but 1t has
his danger, failing to carry out itJ
ledges to the people. Instead NJ
1aling the individual man the ideal,
makes money the measure OF man,
herefo..e he abandons his reason :
nd seeRs 70 Set up material glory ,
,stead q moral purity, his reason 1
eing lost sight Of. Instead Of apply 4
,g the scrfptures a. . Guide, "That ]
righteousness exaIts : nation, and
nat sin is a reproseh 70 any people" {
ian seems to act upon the thought. 1
lat dishonesty gained wea1tn *;
Its q nation and robbins his bfoth- I
: ia a compliment to any nation
We certainly have the correct {
lea OF government, but the way we 9
AIRY 1t out is a travesty on human 9
snse. Man. clothed with o little
REF authority. cuts such antics be-
re high heaven, that 1t makes the
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