The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-02-08
War Brings Issues Not Included
In Peace Treaty.
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"foreign TO the German IDEAL"
Family life is out OF date, says
Neuner. and all children should be
charges of the state. For prayer,
Neuner proposes the following sub
stitute, which the Roman Catholic
Germania appropriately calls pray
err ersatz," or substitute:
BODILY and mental "uplift' move
ments every morning, baths, deep
breathing, song and dance, reading
of valuable poetry, contemplation of
truly artistic objects of art, training
of will power by auto-suggestion, etc.
These are Just starters of the queer
religious that will originate in Ger
many.
Birth Rate Falls During War.
The decrease in the birth rate ow-
ing TO the war we know by special
observation to be true. The effects
of the Thirty Years War on Ger
many has been noted for duly $50
wears after its close in 1913. Per-
ris writes:
The beginning of the eighteenth
century found the mass of the people
abject, gloomy, discontinued, but
hopeless
one of the immediate effects is
noted thus by Freytag:
1T was a period when the noble
mother gave her daughter with pleas
ure into the arms of the protiigate
prince end the courtier gave up his
wife to him for money"
Of the intervening period Perris
writes:
"To the great preponderence of
women over men after this and later
wars must be accounted a very in
furious influence on German char
acter. More depends on the
balance of the sexes than scientists
have as yet seriously attempted to
show. The even progress of any
community requires complex CO.
operation of approximately even
numbers of the two sexes. Any vio-
lent disturbance of this balance not
simply interrupts the normal growth
in numbers, it upsets every social
activity, every circle of social or
ganization, the family, the worship,
the school, the church, the city. the
state If it be true, as biologists
agree, that in the process of natural
and social selection, the males nor
mally represent variability and the
females stability, the males active
intelligence and the females affec-
ton and patience, it is evident that
society consisting mainly of one
sex will exhibit in a special degree
the characteristics of that sex. Such
morbid eXaggeration grows and per-
petuates itself, as it were, by con-
tagion. A generation having a
very large majority of women and
children will have a morbid char
acter of its own, and will leave deep
marks upon the economic, political.
intellectual and moral life of the
future. The whole fabric of
society is degraded and weakened.
From 1850 onward, while the masses
fell into superstition, rarer spirits
especially women-gave way to the
emotional excuses of Pietism. After
100 this movement captured nearly
all the country churches. The
contemporaries of Leasing cannot be
called manly race Sentimentality,
affection and subservience poisoned
social manners. Men wept easily, and
for hours together Women were
little educated; and though the
housewives were the backbone of the
growing middle class, marriage was
essentianally business arrangement.
Students seem to have been frequent
ly consumptive or hypochondriacal
y " The later romantic movement
was colored by these disorders"