The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-29
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disease in our educational life. Col
lege women should study philosophy
today but not the rationalistic phil
osophical teachings so much in vogue
in our university life in the pre-war
days.
Some Sound Principles.
will venture to call your atten-
lions to a few principles which are
for all of us points of contact.
There is first of all the dignity and
nobility of human nature. Social po-
sition Of parents gives consideration
to child from date of birth. Eduea-
ton gives an intellectual nobility
Wealth and power mean position All
these must be regarded as incidental,
Every human being has moral and
spiritual dignity arising from human
nature. This is above all others. In
CAPABILITIES will always exist but there
are not and can be no prescriptive
rights which allow one class, or many
classes to treat any individual or
group of individuals taS though they
had not the essential or substantial
dignity of human nature. Let the in
dividual man be rich or poor, lettered
or unlettered, cultured or savage he
still has the dignity of human ma
ture. There can be no true appre-
citation in the Christian sense of the
dignity Of human nature without re-
hgion. Human nature in the indi-
vidual man means a spiritual sub
stance informing these bodies, means
an immortal soul valued and sealed
with the value of the life of Christ
who died for every soul. Let us take
the capitalist and the labor or trades
men who have no religion, who be-
lieve not in God nor in future life.
What can we expect of them, but to
get the most out of their life accord
ing to their ideas. Let us suppose
capital and labor opposed to each
other by men of this stamp 1t can
only mean amending warfare. Unfor-
tunately many radicals of labor are
rejecting all religion, all idea of the
supernatural, all idea of God. Equal
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become so material, so engrossed in
the pursuit of gain that it has often
lived without any regard for the su-
pernatural. Let us continue to raise
up children without supernatural re-
ligion, whether they be children of
capital or labor and things will grow
even worse in the next generation. I
invite your attention as educational
lists in a very special manner to the
necessity of religion for children, es-
pecially during their young formative
and impressionable years. The
strongest impressions of life are those
Of tender childhood. One looking into
the future may indeed be apDrehen-
sive if the educationalists do not rec
OgniZe and insist on some moral and
religious training for our youth.
wish we had the vision of England in
the subject Of education. There is
no force in. the world so potent for
good and for real happiness as sound
moral and religions formation. There
is no force in the world SO powerful
to make all classes recognize the
brotherhood OF society as religion.
Man is not an isolated creature but
from his very nature he is a social
being Neither nature, nor God in
tended that men should be warning
factors or elements OF the social en-
tity 1t is false philosophy, it is OPP
posed to nature and grace to begin
and maintain war among classes.
Glass warfare is insanity, it is suicidal
of the race. 1t is a curse of our times
But again is it not evident when men
reject all religion, when they have nc
idea of the supernatural, no belief in
a hereafter or in personal God, thai
it is very natural for them to carry on
a class warfare? If l am to have
nothing except what | get out OF this
life, why should | give any consider
alton for the method or means? Ii
propaganda of class hatred is a means
why stop at it?
We may indeed marvel at the pa
thence of our Federal government in
dealing with anarchistic and extreme
radical leaders, who have been secret
~ carrying on a propaganda of VIC
lence. Temporizing with such leaders
seems a vacilating policy from which
no good can be expected. We must
however, be careful not to be too com
prehensive in putting all in the same
class. Liberty gave birth to our coun
try. There is in the soul of man the
demand and the spirit OF liberty. L
is human aspiration that can neve
be crushed. 1t is the power OF elect
ing while observing the proper orde
of ones end We may also define it
the faculty of acting or not acting Q
of electing one thing in preference t.
others Liberty is a God-given gift
1t is one that God respects and on
He will not take back. 1t is a gift Il
certain sense that ties the hands o
God. The abuse of liberty throw
open the gates for evil. We must no
understand liberty as the right to d
lust what each one pleases. IN
modern anarchist or radical may S
understand it, but not Christian PM
osophy, which requires that the prof.
err order of ones end Or destiny b
observed. The individual will abus
liberty until the end of time as
Z affects himself individually. 1t is tn
function of the state to Interfere wit
Z the individual and to prevent the e.
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