The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-11

Given a society of individuals Of cor
rect standards. legislation will be in
herently correct and government cor
respondingly good.
(2) We maintain that the race is
as yet in its infancy of development,
and that it is destined to evolve infin-
itely higher.
81 We declare that everything is
primarily mental. presenting different
manifestations of the one universal in
telligence, of which man is the high
est expression known to us. The pro-
per study of mankind is man. An un-
Outstanding of himself, his relations to
the sum of all intelligence, and COM
prehension of natural laws, as seen
from mental or positive pole, is the
open sesame to rapid progress, happi-
ness and power
"a We maintain that noble ego
ism lselfhood, character is the foun-
cation of strength and of just action,
and. therefore. we champion the cause
of self-reliance.
% We affirm the unity of the
race, the brotherhood Of man, and
maintain that to do unto Others as
you would that they should do unto
you is the true relationship of indi-
vlduaIs and of nations.
(o) We proclaim the doctrine of
optimism as expressed in the quality
OF harmony, hope, and courage, de-
clarlng hate, worry, and fear to be
arch enemies Of happiness and success.
% We maintain that the mind is
the builder of both brain and bodv
and that by concentration of thought
1t will materialize the thing desired.
(0) The attainment of happiness is
the sole object and purpose of all life,
We recognize material wealth as an
AID to mental growth, and mental SCI
ence points the way to the control of
material objects through mental force
~ We assert our absolute indie
Pendence of creeds. and accept for our
motto, liberty of thought and freedom
to investigate, welcoming truth from
whatever source it may appear.
The foregoing declaration Of prin-
clples was adopted UNANIMOUSLY some
years ago at a national congress of
mental scientists and invites the thot-
tul consideration of every truthseeker
throughout the world.
Some forty years ago John Boyle
O'ReiIly, noted Irish poet and patriot,
gave voice to the following prophetic
The masses are poor, ignorant, and
dlsoEganized, not knowing the rights of
mankind on earth, and never knowing
that the world Belongs to its living po-
puIation, because a small class in ev-
cry country has taken possession of
property and government, and makes
laws for its own safety and the secur-
lty of its plumber, educating the mass
es. generation after generation into the
condition as the natural order and the
law of God. By long training and
submission, the people everywhere
have come to regard the assumption of
their rulers and owners as the law of
right and common sense, and their
own blind instincts, which tell them
that all men ought to have plenteous
living on this rich earth, as the prompt
ing of evil and disorder. The quail
tiles we naturally dislike and fear in
a man are those which insure success
under our present social order, name
ly, unscrupulousness, hardness, adroit-
ness, selfishness, the disposition to take
advantage of the necessities of others,
The will to trample on the weak in the
canting name of progress and civiIiz-
alton. The qualities we love in man
send him to the poorhouse-generos-
ty, truthfulness, friendIiness, unselfisr-
ness. the desire to help, the mind to
refuse profit from neighbor's loss,
he defense of the weak.
"Our present civilization is organic
ID injustice and intellectual barbarism.
Dur progress is march to a preci-
oice."
And Shelley, one of the great prole-
:arian poets, wrote over century ago,
Wealth is a power usurped by the
:ew, to compel the many to labor for
heir benefit. The laws which support
his system derive. their force from the
IGNORANCE and CREDULITY of its
they are the result of a !
of the few against the