The Washington times., 1919-03-30
Better Times Are Coming
The Human Race Is Improving Slowly, and By and BY
1t Will Be Worth Admiring.
mother takes her little boy to the brOOder house o.

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There are five hundred of them little yellow, fluffy balls
running about and they stepping over one or two
dead The little boy points to red spot the ground and
asks t'Whats that?" His mother takes him out OF the
Srooder house There the ground hes one OF the chicks
sn alive but unable to resist moving its head panu1y'
While the other little chicks drawn by the sight OF plooo
pick it to death This goes millions Of times all over
She world every day, agonzing DEATH Natures cruel
method .'''.''''
The same child taken to the kittens The mother
ca. comes in bringing mouse half stupefed by the cat
esws but still alive It dropped among the Kittens that
they may be educated for their future work. by finishing
the process of torturing the mouse to death
That is Natures educational system"
The hooks of q great French naturalist who recently
died take you into the presence of the lower insect forms
Of Hfe You see the mudwasp with marvellous instinct
dragging caterpillar be buried where the eggs OF the
wasp are to be laid beside the catepars body It is not
dead only wounded stunned by thrust Of the wasp
sting between two vertebral segmens 1t lies helpless
waiting for the young moths to hatch from the eggs and
dsVour 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 suf
fered to produce the calf that is to have its throat cut
by the butcher Woman brings forth her child in agony
SIN sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. -
Genesis UI16
The serpent must crawl flat on the ground
EeUpon thy belly shalt thou CO. and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life."-Genesis HI:14.
These judgments represent punishment for sin in con-
necton with the forbidden fruit
But the COW did not eat the forbidden fruit the gorilla
IN the tropcs did not eat it. but cow gorilla and all other
female animals suffer as Eve was condemned to suffer.
Cruel is Nature in her methods from beginning to end
The picture in the next columns shows you the power
full ceaseess remorseess cruel driving force here on the
earth.
Animals prey upon and destroy each other Men eat
the animals and kill each other wholesale In wars retail
IN private fights.
AS the beauty and innocence of childhood built
upon the terrible suffering Of childbirth all that we ad
re in civilization is built upon human suffering ncon
evabe Conquerng nations made slaves Of feeber people
They worked them literally to death in mines, in galley
ships where they chained to the oars and they made
them murder each other for public amusement in the arena
They don't do that now, but what we call civilization
still gTnds up children In factories and mills And taxing
the earth as 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
ernqs Of the ages there is for pessmism
hopeless view of the world.
the happiness that her child gives her the mother
s well rewarded for her suffering.
And in the real civilization and happiness that viii
come to the human whole eventually, humanity
will be well rewarded for all that it has endured in its
most primitive stages and in THIS primitive stage Of war
horrors disease, selfshness and cruelty
Back of all that we there is eternal wisdom, work
ing through laws Interchangeable and inflexibe Nature il
cruel because she MUST be- Human beings suffer because
they MUST suffer The unfinished building be hideous
an ugly of me mortar brick and cement when hall
finished In order that the finished beautiful work may
come later.
And all the other manifestations of Natures power
ere simply an unfinished structure in the building stage
The work will be finished day, and just surely
everything we know in Nature is cruel and painful
inst so surely will suffering and undeserved sorrow anC
H.; 4Lar doTy
Science has almost succeeded in overcoming the funda
mental agony of child birth It will it absoute
in days to come.
Science is rapidly overcoming poverty famine ant
disease.
men would and could do all that science could teac
them to do one single State in this Union Texas cou