The Washington times., 1920-02-15
Thought, Progress, and
Knowledge
The Past Should Be Merely an Education to
Problems of Present and Future.

Problems of Present and Future
The number persistently and mysteously affects the
human AL good things three the Proverb says
Philosophers worked constantly trying to explain their sys
TENS Lind of material trinity power-fre air
water other. Ancient religions. well as mod
ern nearly all had trinity supposed to rule Thus the
Hndoo theology ruling India for centuries held up braha
the chief god Vishnu and Sva the all powerful trinity
Fourteen other chief gods played minor parts Brahma
Vishnu and silva the three ruling.
The ancient Egyptians had their trnity-osrs Pthah
and Amun
Matter of-fact modern philosophers will tell you that
the idea of the trinity among early human beings may have
been born in the family circle hundred thousand years ago
earlier when the isolated family trinity was made up OF
the father mother and child sitting before the smoky hire
in the
aautama, of which the meaning is che who kills the
is the chosen by young Indian prince born
about ten centuries before Christ When twenty nine years
old he became weary of sefndulgence living in palace
with useless lot of wives The history OF his he says that
the sight of human corpse decayng first made him think
seriously He made up his mind that life too short for
pleasure and started his travels leaving all property
behind him. dressed only shr0ud taken from the BODY
Of female slave.
He seems to have forgotten in his hurry that he was
overlooking the rights of that female slave.
few months after he started, Gautama had five dis
cs He had twelve hundred at the end OF the first year
Now about thirty centuries after his DEATH he has
followers than any religion religious teacher in the
world.
His country India is the only country in the world
that has same reg10n naQ AT OF
Christ except the Jewish population Of Palestine
Buddhism and its interesting founder selected
the text of this editorial because Of the Buddhist trinity
Past Present and Future In the Buddhist statues the
image of the Past shown with its hands folded It has
gone to rest, will never do anything more
The Buddhist images showing the present and the
future made with their right hands extended to show
that they still active although Mr. Mccay has followed
his idea.
Gautama did not believe in any individual god His
idea was that everything itself God that there sim
ply gigantic force ruling everything Past Present, and
Future representing it. And the best that human beings
could hope for would be to go through life under various
guises as men if they behaved well if they
behaved badly animals insects their conduct was
still And in the end the greatest happiness to
enter Nirvana nothingness, absence Of all struggle
That would not suit Americans; they want struggle
and hereafter.
These editorials written for Gautama who fed
his body to the starving ress that she might have milk
for her cubs they not written for Buddhsts but for
young American men and women for whom the PAST is
nothing education be made useful in the FUTURE
young men and upon whom the future depends and
whose future depends absolutely what they THINK and
DO NOW.
If you saw sculptor standing, as the od-fashioned
scupors did in front of great block of stone with chise
and hammer you would know that few weeks month
later you would find finished statue in place of the rough
And you would know that chance, accident OF
luck the with his chise and hammer did the work
The the figure be made in the rough stone be
fore him. determination knowledge and energy did the rest
Of course becomes tresome for the young hear
much talk about the future But that FUTURE plus tn
minutes passing, is all that they possess
The who does not look at the Future the scur
looks at his block of stone and make his mind JUS
WHAT he is going to out of that future has little
chance and all the Luck" that existed will not
him from being of the millions that amount to nothing
Of the crowd that watch and applaud skung in tn
chorus" when somebody else gets the reward.