The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-04

ness-their own human ature-the
world within we may, however, fail
to pay attention to it, may not give it
adequate consideration, and thus pre-
cIude the possibility Of solving contem-
porary problems of government and IN
dustry; because these problems be-
come clarified and can be understood
to the degree only that the human fac
tors they involve are apprehended.
When we recognize this inner world cf
human nature, not only in ourselves,
but in all events, things, and circum-
stances, we shall have found the
Kingdom of Heaven" which we have
been told is within us.
Throughout the long enterprise of
civilization says Prof. Irwin Edman
(CoIumbia) in his book, Human
Traits, - 81 in which mankind has more
or less consciously changed the word
they found into one more in conform
ity with their desires, two factors have
remained constant: CD the physical
order of the universe, which we com
monty call Nature, and ~ the native
biological equipment of man, common
ly known as human nature. Both of
these. we are almost unanimously as
sured by modern science, have remain
ed essentially the same from the dawn
of history to the present They are
the RAW MATERIAL out of which is
built up the vast complex of govern
ment, industry, science, art-all that
we call civilization. In a very genuine
sense, there is nothing new under the
sun. Matter and MEN remain the
same.
but while this fundamental mater
ial is constant, it may be given vari-
Gus forms; and both Nature itself and
THE NATURE OF MAN may with in
creasing knowledge, be increasingly
controlled in mans own interests. The
railroad, the wireless, and the aero
plane are striking and familiar testi-
monies to the efficacy of mans infor-
NAL mastery of the world into which he
is born. In the field of physical sci
ence, man has, in the short period of
three centuries since Francis Bacon
sounded the trumpet call to the study
of Nature and Newton discovered the
laws of motion, magnificently attain
ed and appreciated the power 10
KNOW exactly what the facts of ma
ture are, what consequences follow
from them, and how they may be APP
piled to enlarge the boundaries OF thel
empire of man. 81
''In his control of human nature,
which is in its outlines as fixed and as
constant as the laws that govern the
of the stars, man has been
much less conscious and deliberately
and more frequently moved by passion
and ignorance than by reason and
Nevertheless, custom and
aw, the court, the school, and the
market have similarly been mans ways
IF utilizing the original equipment of
impulse and desire which nature has,
given him. 1t is hard to believe, but
Is certain as it is incredible, that the
modern professional and business man,
moving freely amid the diverse con-
acts and complexities pictured in any
casual newspaper, in a world of fac
cries and parliaments and aeroplanes,
S by nature no different from the SUI
,erstitious savage hunting p:ecarious
God, living in caves, and finding ev-
ry stranger an enemy. The differ
nee between the civilization of an
American city and that of the barbar-
an tribes of Western Europe thou
ands of years ago is an accurate in
x of the extent to which man has
,ceeded in redirecting and control
ng that fundamental human nature
hitch has in its essential structure re-
nained the same through history.
MANY ways of association and CO. /
peration, for the most part, have not /
cen deliberately developed, since men 5
we'd and had to live together long be- r
ore A SCIENCE OF HUMAN RELA- IL
IONS could have been dreamed of. {
'nly today are we beginning to have t
n mixing of the fundamental facts Of b
uman nature. But it has become In S
,easingly plain that progress depends /
OF merely on increasing our know @
dge and application of the laws a
hich govern mans physical environ a
ent. Machinery, factories, and au- |,
matte reapers, are, after all. only in q