The Washington times., 1919-03-30
Better Times Are Coming
The Human Race Is Improving Slowly, and By and By
It viii Be Worth Admiring.


running about and they stepping over one or two
dead The little boy points to red spot the ground and
asks whats that? His mother takes him out Of the
broOder house There the ground lies Of the chicks
sH alive but unable to resist moving its head painfully,
while the other little chicks drawn by the sight Of blood
pick it to death This goes on millions Of times all over
the world every day. agOnizng death, Natures cruel
msthod
The same child is taken to see the kittens The mother
cat comes In bringing mouse half stupefed by the cats
claws but sH alive is dropped among the kittens that
they may be educated for their future work. by finishing
the process Of tortming the mouse to death
That is Natures educational system
The books of great French naturalist who recently
died take you into the presence of the lower insect forms
Of life You see the mudwasp with marvellous instinct
dragging caterpillar to be buried where the eggs Of the
wasp to be laid beside the caterars body It Is not
dead only wounded stunned by thrust of the wasp
sting between vertebral segments It lies helpless
waiting for the young moths to hatch from the eggs and
deVUur it while it still lives.
The child is taken to see the pretty little calf and
admire the affection of the mother cow licking and clean
ing the little creature The farmer who has perhaps sat
up all night with the COW, knows what agony she has su
feed produce the calf that is to have its throat cut
by the butcher. woman brings forth her child in agony
'In sorrUw thou shalt bring forth children
Genesis uII6.
The serpent must crawl flat on the ground.
'"Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life '-Geness II:14
These judgments represent punishment for sin in con-
nection with the forbidden fruit.
But the did not eat the forbidden fruit the gorilla
IN the tropics did not eat it. but cow gorilla and all other
female animals suffer Eve condemned to suffer.
Cruel is Nature in her methods from beginning to end
The picture in the next columns shows you the power
t eeaseles remOrseess cruel driving force here the
eaFth-
Animals prey upon and destroy each other. Men eat
the animals and kill each other wholesale wars retail
IN private fights.
As the beauty and innocence of childhood are built
upon the terrible suffering Of childbirth all that ad
mire in civilization is built upon human suffering incon-
cevabe Conqueng nations made slaves Of eeber people
They worked them literally to death in mnes in galley
ships where they chained to the and they made
them murder each other for public amusement the
They don't do that now, but what call civilization
still gTnds up children in factories and mills And taking
the earth whole the great majority still work too hard
and have too little in order that small minority may
work not at all and have too much
In all of this however in Natures cruelty in the suf
ngs Of the ages there is cause for pessimism
hopeless view of the world
In the happiness that her child gives her the mother
Is well rewarded for her suffering.
And in the real civilization and happiness that will
nome to the human whole eventually, humanity
y be well rewarded for all that it has endured in its
y primitive stages, and in THIS primitive stage of war,
y disease selfshness and cruelty.
- ak of all that there is eternal wisdom, work
q Ugh laws Interchangeable and infexible. Nature is
shI ISTTSse she MUST be- Human beings suffer because
= 11 - y1ffer. The unfinished building must be hideous
sis5sJ ~ # lime mortar, brick and cement when half
rome later. 'n"' VIC !-AD'n1U' Oe""'AIH "OlA mdV
-, AZ = % - Sher manifestations of Natures power
r. - iii III - Ahed structure, in the building stage
tSjno We InowNed some day, and just surely as
Vs - sgrsv ~ T" V is cruel and painful now
y b aT;+n.+ad 'S-opg and undeserved sorrow and
Science has almost suSSVe suSSe world some day
80 -- 80 cLiIJ h+L ded in overcoming the funda-
- Xviii ahso1uE uI
IN days to come. %N O'0tOOHi0 ~ "O0Ol"'eV
Science is rapidly OvercOA .. s..-
disease poverty 4"Hlne @"o
men would and could do all -. |
them to do single State in OS r COo HeaTI
feed al The people now earth lit.