The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-02
The Indispensable Conquest
of Individual Self-ControI

mensely successful. If they failed TO
Iperpetuate the primitive form it was
net due to any inherent defects in pro
ductive cooperation, but to sinister fin
ancial and economic pressure from
without, that cloaked its purpose in the
guise Of religious objections and insid-
iously compelled the Mormons to give
up ina large measure the church script
and cooperative features.
Cooperation signifies working toge-
Their, and if workingmen in numbers
of ten thousand and more can work
for corporation together for the chief
benefit Of handful Of stockholders
can they not, if hufficiently intelligent
and of the right disposition, form a
company of their own and work to-
gether and reap the full benefit Of their
enterprise? Whoever says they can
not do SO impugns the intelligence and
the constructive ability of the workers.
| The members of Llano Colony not
only believe that productive. integral
Incorporation is possible, but they know
it and are demonstrating it. The on
| ly thing doubling Thomases will have
Ito do is to come and see. The proof
| of the pudding. you know, is in the eat
ing.
Every action of the Colony is to a
large extent dictated by the conditions
confronting the enterprise. Adaptation
to conditions and circumstances is an
unacceptable requirement if necessary
achievements are to be wrought. As
Ilong as man is up in the air he can
build all kinds of air-castles, but when
one comes down to the prosaic facts
of life, adaptation to them becomes i'm
perative. A simple meal is to hum
cry man more valuable than the most
elaborate bal-of-fare that cannot be
substantiated with the corresponding
dishes. Cooperation in LIano Colony
yields satisfaction and JOY that no
employment in the inherently dishon-
est competitive system ever gave.
Rear genuine knowledge of the world
without and cf our own selves is spir-
itual truth of eternal verify and value
that places one in harmony with all
natural law. All material things, cir
cumstances and all human affairs are
as clay in the hands of the potter
MIND-it is the determining factor in
human history.
The mental faculty that phrenoIo-
glsts name reason or causaIity is ac-
cording to William Whewell's ''Ele-
ments of Mortality, the faculty by
which we apprehend fundamental prin-
ciples." And T. H. Green. in his Pro-
losue to Ethics says: Reason is the
self objectifying consciousness. 1t con-
stitutes '***the capability in man of
seeking an absolute good and of con-
ceiying this good as common to others
with himself; and it is this capability |
which alone renders him a possible
author and a~self-submitting subject of
law" ??
Other writers tell us that the ethical
function of reason is sovereign and le-
gisIative. But it is largely disregarded
and appetite and emotion are in the
saddle. AS DR.. ]. H. Tilden of Denver,
Colo.,l expressed it in his December
1916 number of the Philosophy of
Health:
when emotions govern, reason abb
dicates-if indeed, it has ever been en- |
throned. So long as emotions control
charlantry will thrive. The poor will
be caught in the medical, legal, and
ethical traps baited by iIliterate quacks
those who can stand vulgar adver-
Using. Society will take the bait pre-
pared by the ignorant savants and lit
crate, with whom this world is replete,
The latter assume to hold the keys to
all correct knowledge. They may be
known by their desire to protect their
mental output by law.
Today the dominant healing sys-
TENN fact, all healing systems are
finely wrought schemes of palliation,
whose long suit is commercialism. and
in the application of which drug and
sick habits are formed. The people
are educated into thinking disease
about sickness. disease and
death. A mental disease, that can be
called fear is almost universal. and it
causes telling Of apprehension. This
feeling is SO acute that a slight pain
causes many to seek medical advice,
and, because Of this keenness of this
gear of impending danger, they are
easily wheedled into believing that they
are in imminent danger and IN need of
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