The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-16
Are You on the Side Of
Progress and Advancement?

The real battle of life is one of
ideas; it is being fought out by the
few against the many. On the one
side is the constructive and creative
thought; one the other side. the de-
structive and negative thought. The
creative thought is dominated by an
ideal: the passive thought is dominat-
ed by appearances. On the creative
side are men who spend their time in
laboratories, or over microscopes and
telescopes, side by side with the men
who dominate the commercial, politi-
cal, and scientific world; on the neg
alive side are men who spend their
time investigating law and precedent,
men who mistake theology for religion.
statesmen who mistake might for right,
and all the millions who seem to prefer
precedent to progress, who are eternal
ly looking backward instead OF for
ward, who see only the world without,
but know nothing Of the world within.
In the last analysis. there are but these
two classes; all men will have to take
their places on one side or the otheE;
they will have to go forward, or go
back; there is, no standing still in a
world where all is motion; is is the at
tempt to stand still that gives sanction
and force to arbitrary and unequal
codes of law
The foregoing sentences were part
of the subject matter discussed at the
mental science class at NewlIano on
evening. December 10. Men
tai science is the science of correct
and it is the one science that
includes all other sciences. And, in
order to get an understanding Of men
tai science. it has to be studied as care
fully and persistently as all other SCI
ences have. been studied and establish
ed.
Natural phenomena is the language
in which the self-existent, intelligent,
or growing energy of the uni
verse expresses itself; and the deciph- |
,riing of it and gaining an understand
ng, purport and utility is the very mis-
ZION Of mans consciousness. He must
cad the meaning of all these phenom-
ena clearly, accurately, and discover
he applicability of them to his own life
for only in such way can his we'll
being and happiness be secured. Plac-
ng some artificial construction upon
hem, interpreting or explaining them,
las led mankind into every morass of
and political sophistry.
A setting forth in the plainest words
possible, most easily understood, of the
Uniform processes in the consecutive
manifestations of natural Phenomena
md the methods by which they can be
Utilized for human benefit, constitutes
science. And such knowl-
dge taught, accepted. and practiced,
mites all people. Science, knowledge,
makes no demand on credulity, imposes
10 penalties on disbelief. except in the
deprivation of the supply and benefits
which its application can provide;
.nows nothing of arbitrary authority,
nd recognizes no boundaries, geo.
raphical or racial. All nations accept
he facts of science, no matter who
nay have been the discoverer or first
disseminated it. Science is information
j. republican and democratic. What
yer comfy exists between individuals.
communities, and nations is due to de-
knowledge that everyone
an verify for himself who will take the
aims to do so. i
Living in harmony with the natural
Avs of being constitutes goodness. To
e effective good people must be init
alive, constructive, and self-controlled.
To merely preach goodwill and
to the selfish is futile. Ev-
ry avenue for exploitation and wrong
DING must in time be eliminated or OBJ !
lated. Domestic and international
eace and order cannot be had until
le causes of war and the legal oppor-
mites and countenance of crime are :
minated. The selfish thrive on the
,thargy of the honest. upright, and the
irtuous. Selfish greed is now more
ian ever rampant in the world and
nlessit is checked it will result in war !
IRE without cessation. i
The persistent. scientific attitude
nd disposition. and unremitting search !;
II natural laws, is like grain of mus !
ri seed mr. Ike veast. II will sDread | =