The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-06-26
Cynthia Grey's
LETTERS
MINNIE FRAZIER WRITES

MINNIE FRAZIER WRITES
NY Dear Miss orey:--Let us be
done with this SoPHiSTRY, this
sophistte acaroorow, THE fetish
slogan-PHYSiCALLY Fiji let
ia turn our thinking 10 a finer fun
damcntal --. SPIRITUALLY FIT -
FITTED INTO A SPIRITUAL EN-.
ViRoNMENT. This, and nothing
eise. 10 our DIVINE INHERIT.
ANCE. Spiritual environments
have small relation to ereedal
ehurehanity, but will be the prod.
uot OF scientific Christianity.
A great oxford professor recent
~ Issued the greatest challenge Is.
sued TO the scientific world In 40
or more years: That the ColoS.
SAL FAILURE In the history OF
all science has been the attempt
TO explain organiems In terms OF
the PHYSICAL. When 20. c."
and others OF your correspondents
grasp this significance they will
cease TO waste precious energy IN
worrying over race failure In war
times. A diviner law governs re.
production and lts relationship to
race than mere physical fitness"
Emerson ~ that golden name in
Ameriea-Darwin. the Brownings,
Byron, Percy Shelly, Sir Walter
Scott. Goethe. ad infintum, were
not physically fit." Mary Baker
Eddy was not physically ~" up
10 the age OF as, yet she bore a
physically TT" son. While her
vigorous, virlle sister bore nervous
children. Woodrow Wilson has
never been physically III" In pres
ent day termInoiooy Yet who
would not be proud TO have any
OF this blood In his veins2 Who
would deny them progeny above
tina, OF puoiilsts (who nearly all
die OF poverty diseases)2
How many editors, educators or
revolutionists are physically mr.
What assurance have we OF race
progress In this panthelstie wor.
ship OF beef. Drawn and bralnT
Mind 10 the outcome OF million
years OF brain.
One swallow does not make
summer. One fact. factor nor flea.
ture does not make science. No
truth 10 ever scientific until all lts
relationships are established. The
relationship OF muscles and blood
pressure to soul 10 mighty poor
measure for future standards In
race progress. Breeding for phys
ical fitness" in stock often results
in barrenness. In fowls the results
are often a breeding out OF all
profitable production. Was not the
fines; better baby" ever born In
Seattle from undersxed and IN
developed parents7 Was not the
most perfect baby" found in New
York slums7
Let US beware Of SoPHlSTRY.
Let us rout out the sophistry in our
ereeds, traditions. superstitions and
slogans. A great scientific theist
said: Sophistry hs an anarchist In
ethics. And II 10 true. Let US
escape that other fatterino soph-
issry that we are EDUCATED.
Even mothers speak OF daughters
education" when she has finished
grade school or the convent! Our
newspapers recorded in the earlier
days how a certain girl returned
from Chicago. after six months
schooling. highly educated! Shades
OF Soeratesl Socrates rolled back
the tides Of sophists. and stamped
the though, OF 1900 years. and be-
oan the foundations OF the present
day scientific method.
Are men educated with ereedai
walls, political walls, prejudieec
walls or academic walls lettering
minos7 Be they great statesmen
or even thinkers7 let US learn TO
more truly speak Of people as
SChooLED, SKILLED or Gull
TURED. Let us turn our school.
ing away from physically iii"
plati.udes towards diviner beati-
tuoes. All evolution is from with
in.
Cordially,
MINNIE a FRAZIER