Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-12-14

human mortals did that themselves
when they chained this superstition
where it belonged to the chariot
wheels of human mutual aid
Science has fawned before thrones
just as it yoked itself to the bastiles
the better to fetter human liberty
and only when it was harnessed de-
spite itself to human progress was it
ever found striving to make happier
the lives of those who had been left
to submerge in the slough of despond.
1t clans to take the place of re-
ligion in mems lives may only be en-
tertained because religion tself cuff
fered from dry rot and was another
form of superstituian; and rightly we
might substitute one superstition for
another if the human mind is to be
the servant of the centuries for ever.
The time is coming when human
beings will weary of following these
eternal will O. the wisps thru the
quagmires and will find themselves
drawing a new rule of life founded
upon TIT facts of social Intercourse
and not the enslavement of one class,
nation or race by another. 1t will
not be builded upon any dogma
whether dogma of germs or dogma
OF eschatology. 1t will not be assoc
lated with the fear of the unknown
which has alike guided the witch doc
tor and the scientist with his test
tubes and indeed one is the archetype
of the other 1t will be built upon the
creed of human relationship, broad
ening into a rule of conduct which
shall be as the truth, changing, i'm
proving, and always adjusting itself
to the social and the individual needs.
The fact that universities have for
some tine become the nests of the
privileged classes in democracy is
perhaps significant of what we have
been saying. Only occasionally is some
teacher to be discovered with the
strength of mind and the force of
character and the genuine learning
to make any pronouncment ex ca
thedra or otherwise which might be
regarded as anathema by those social
censors who have taken it upon them
selves to guard the social upper crust
with all the cae hardening of parasitic
incrustations in any form of life Such
one has either to conceal his indie
pendence, and then it ceases, in a /
camouflage of irony, or face the in
quisitorial condemnation that natur-
ally enough his acts courted.
Take up the average scientific mag
azine. 1t is as remote from the facts
of life as legal jargon is foreign to
colloquial language. 1t is caviare to
the general, even to the well read
general. which spurns the mlsera BILE |
incidentals as to sanitation when a |
world in arms is committing suicide |
because men knew no one another |
and their most intimate international I
relations.
Such miserable pettfogging is a |
commonplace of science which loves
to ape the philosophy or Nero who
fiddled when city burned, because
in effect it has the heart and the
mind of Nero
The trouble with science is that |
we have made it a God and itself has
claimed immunity from criticism as
have the Fathers of r<e Church pro-
nounced themselves infaIllble from a
kindred reason. 1t is immensely
shocked when one comes forward and
rattles its temporary theories and
points out that of all the buncombe
that once upon time hundred years
ago forced itself upon scientists as
scientific fact today is relegated by