El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08

the chief good that community Of
life which instinctively he felt 10 De
the true and cosmic essence Of his
being.
Thus passed primitive communal
society and civilized corporate society
took its place. The tribe became "A
nation by the process Of organizing
itself as a corporation In the tribe
kinship was the determining factor
In the nation proprietOrship is the
determining factor. The tribe was
a common blood The nation is a
/ commonwealth. Under its dissolv-
ing influence on the one hand there
/ has continually progressed the solid
flying Of the individual-and on the
other hand the extension Of the com
munity beyond tribal and racial linn
its. With all its multitudinOus train
Z OF evils the studious observer Is
. compelled to see that in the economy
/ OF human development private prop
| erty, with its correlate. the nation,
I has served 4 vast and beneficent pur-
[ pose that, perhaps, could have been
l realized by no other means; IL oper-
I ated to create within the individual
self reliance and initiative, and to
Z enlarge the world through the me
/ diam Of commercial intercourse
/ German Nation rs a Corporation.
Now we have to do with the Ger
| man nation as a property holding
] corporation, and with the phenOme-
non OF an AAEd on the par Va AAAN
I stockholders OF the corporation that
f il is in the corporation that the essen
rial life Of the stOckhOlder subsists-
I 1t is as though YOU had some shares
b in a mine or in a factory. and whether
[ the shares were few or many you
I shareholder was the most important
+ thing about you and that, therefore
] you did not live and love and act and
I endure so much as a man, husband.
did not live in the capacity Of a hu
I name and reasonable human being,
/ so much as you lived as stOckhOlder
I in that corporation; and your conduct
I was not determined by what YOU
should do according to your nature
and your obligations as a man. and
/ according TO your human relation
ship with other people around you.
| so much as 1t was determined by
I what you should do in the interest OF
[ the corporation TO which you be-
I longed. and Of yourself as a member
Of that corporation
The Smaller Corporation.
Now keepins clearly In mind the
corporation called Germany. as a
property holding OrEaniZatiou-keep
ing il in mind also as a legal fiction
TO which people attribute personality
in such expressions as Germany. she
did this or that-keeping clearly In
mind the TACT a corporation is a thing
that has no soul and can have no
soul. and that il subsists apart from
the personality OF the people who own
its stOck-keeping all these matters
in mind we add the fact Of a smaller
corporation within the larger one.
This smaller corporation is a holding
company having in its possession the
majority OF the stock Of the original
corporation The stockholders in this
holding company are the HOhenzol-
lerns and the Junkers- Now. IL we
VIII add the further consideration
that the masses OF the German people
are under the delustion OF thinking
/ that IL Is in the corporation that their
Z lie essentially subsists, rather than
{ IN their human nature as such, and
I that the holding company is neces-
sary In order to the very existence Of
the German people. and the picture
IS philosophicaly complete.
And now II We viii recall what
was shown in the preceding lecture
the fact that everywhere in human
ire from the FIRST and most primi-
tive appearance OF the kin group.
on down to, and including, the an
Client political states and all the
modern nations. the parallel between
the dominant form of religion and
tSe ruling form Of social relation
ship is absolutely complete, we will
arrive at the connection OF the two
parts OF our present discussion. In
the preceding lecture we saw that
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modification in the dominant form Of
/ the community comedies with a cor
responding modification in the char
acter OF the deity and the scope Of
both his benevolent and his malevo-
lent activities.
The God Grows.
The God grows with the growth
Of his public His mind grows with
The growth Of the public mind and
MS heart grows with the growth Of
the public heart The position OF the
deity as a personification OF the com
munity in the last analysis deter
mines every question as TO what the
deityis. in and OF himself, and like
wise IL determines for the average
man every question as TO what his
relations with the supreme being
ought TO be The nature OF the deity
and the inner nature Of the com
munity are parallel facts that for
ever 1nteract upon each other. and
determine each other Religion and
society are inseparable- Religion is
his own society Ideally represented
within the mind Of the individual
Society is religion approximate
represented in the outward lie Of the
community.
Universally as we examine religious
ideas we see that they naturally pre-
sent themselves into three divisions:
Cd Ideas in relation TO the world
Of spirits; 90 ideas in relation 70 the
world Of nature: 80 ideas in rela-
ton to the world Of man.
Without delaying to 80 into the
matter OF how the right. Of private
Judgment in relation 20 the world OF
nature and in relation TO the world
Of spirits came TO be fought out
centuries ago. and won. and establish
ed as a recognized principle OF per-
sonal liberty. in behalf OF the in
dividual, as against the civil cor
pOration. on the one hand. and the
religious corporation. on the other.
throughout the greater part OF the
western world. 7 define Professionalism |
as that form Of popular Christian
belief, which in theory reserves for
the individual the right of private
judgment IN all matters OF religion
whatsoever
Clergymen Made Puppets.
What do We find in Germany as the
outstanding feature OF the Pro-
testantism of that country as we
understand Professionalism to be2 We
find this: The most thorough-gOing
and complete prostitution TO the civil
the leadership OF the Protestant re-
ligionist group to be found anywhere
in the so-called Protestant world. We
find the Protestant clergy as nothing
better than puppet agents. who !
sanctify and suthoritate in the name /
Of the Christian religion the preten-
sions Of the autOcracy as the supreme ]
authority-an authority higher than l
that Of the ruler OF the universe I
over the mind, the conscience, the l
aftections-Over the very soul and l
spirit OF the Individual man.
We in this land Of America have |
there IS a Higher Law" than the I
law of men. vwhaf her they cf on san