The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
: He Came Back All Right
Is The Future WIith Us Now

The law of heredity which requires descen- of their ancestors comprises truths which longer disputed They shine forth visible eyes of all. The child of drunkard will bear the burden of the ernal vice all his life long, from the day of his birth to that of his death, body
 One might say by irrefutable example na- ture had intended ostentaously affirm manifest us understand no whatever of our conceptions of justice injustice and she those obscure circumstances into which power less to follow the inextrioable windings her
 This example, if had other, would be enough to brand that inhuman will with infamy: There does not exist law which is more repugnant to to sense of responsibility, which does deeper injury in the universe the known spirit that rules it. Of all the injustces of life this is the most glarng and the least comprehensble but when we remember that a newborn child child which did not ask to be born, should from the sentence and with evils which it will drag to grace that of the hateful tyrants that history has cursed would dared nature does quietly every day.
 But do really bear the burden of the
 place is it qnte are actually dead and that they longer dwell with in us? It is a fact that continue them, that the durable part of what they We cannot deny that we are still subject to their influence that reproduce their features and their characters that them entirely that they continue live continue to bear the consequences of an action way of living which their departure has not inter-
 But "I had part in this action, this habit, this vice for which am paying today I not consulted had opportunity of uttering a protest of checking father, grandfather he went his ruin down the 2ataI precipce born; did yet exist!"
 How do you know? May there not be an initial er- heredity conceive it? end of the beam of those scaHs which accuse of justice hangs herdity the other is borne by something different, which have never taken into account for it has not yet name something which is heredity, which ceaves into the instead of emerging from the and which might call pre-nataly pre-existenCe.
 a ready lived in then There is to believe that future full should be less active potent past the dead. place should rather ascend the of the years o the actions?
 what fashion those already dwell in ation; that do dwell in What number descendants, in the of rnents, climates territories and centuries cause to undergo they keep through principle of life which they have derived They obtained it elsewhere they could De they They have really issued from us; and, they they there from the first.
 A innumerable, wIaat were they doing permissible suppose they absolutely inactive? What their powers? divided them from us? When begin. where they what point instincts thoughts and their desires ours?
 How could they you ask. having yet brain?"
 True but they had ours. The dead, too with out brain; yet denies that they continue to md This brlin of which is but the condenser of thought and will Like the Ieyden jar the Ruhmkorff coil it springs life only long the electric hud of is passing through it residing It fluid, it collects it; what what really does the thinking is convoIutions the windings of he through it; and what the of all the exstences which &C.,