The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-14
THE DOCTRINE OF PERIoDICITY:
WHAT is IT, AND WHAT LIGHT
DOES 1T THROW UPON PRES
ENT WORLDWIDE CONDITION?
By George D. Coleman

S%~A o. 80 CSASAAGAM
am neither advocating not oppos-
ing. the doctrine Of Periodicity. but
simply stating the facts. You can use
your own judgment
In Cincinnati, sixty years ago,
there lived a Doctor Buchanan. He
died very old man. He was a very
unusual man; he was an original
thinker, and accepted no idea simply
because it was commonly accepted or
popular. He was rather scientist than
a metaphysician or theorist. Among
his ideas. Among his ideas was one
upon which he wrote several books
that were read then only by few adj
vanced thinkers like himself. His idea
was that humans, as part of nature,
lived and thought under natural law,
or the current or common opinions OF
men were ruled by natural influences.
Some were revolutionary by nature,
while others were progressive; but ov-
er the mass was the influence of a
spiritus mundi, or universal mind. Al
tho not an astrologer, he believed in
the influence Of the stars and that as
the world or the solar system advanced
in its place as related to the stars, the
world of mind, or mems thought,
changed, and he interpreted history as
proving his ideas. Not only mems
minds Governments. etc, but the phys
icaI conditions were ruled in the same
way. The glacial period and other
periods were explained in the same
way. Of course, in a short article. |
canpot properly explain or do justice
to his ideals; but he stated that we
should soon come to point OF great
change. Without going into detail,
Judging by the great war in Europe and
its after effects. not yet barely COM
menced, it would seem that the old
Doctors forecasts are on the way to
fulfillment. His idea was that we
would enter upon period when an en-
tire change would come over all gov
ernments, society, and mems relations
Is one another. One thing seems very
plain to one who observes, and that is
that the present system has broken
down or has come, TO a crisis. The spirit
&c Internationalism is growing, and
that among the workers; while natl0n-
alism and the old order is chung 70 by
nv +aact;onaries or those who are PRIV
legged under the present system. 20
ciaIists call this economic determm J,
ism or in plain words Sselt-lnterest.
One thing has struck me in recorded
history past and present. and that IS
that he beneficiaries or the privileged
class has all along held the property
Il m, wealth of the world, controlled IT'S
governments. its courts and laws, ITS
armies and navies. and were well-o5-
a os # only. as Grover Cleveland
s,,ben president, expressed it. the GO
bes;on Of wealth; yet history records
that all the time they have been sradu-
a s losing power; while the poorly
o arc and badly-led proletaaat OF
nroonertvless masses have gradually and
constantly been gaining power ana
Strength. That surely is a curious Facl
and Should give food for thought.
Buchanan, among other things Sa a.
| remember; as it has been years since
read lis writings), said that when
these changes began TO work the leaJ-
t;on , q the privileged class would,
n gbeir opposition. go absolutely crazy
II their attempts to block the changs
tbat curtailed their privileges and tnell
bower now Here again Buchanan ], seems ss
e have foretold what we see, Dom hgis
i he United States and all eyer me
world. The common custom OF 1ns
frame-up against all radicals, Or thoss
deemed ''undesirables" BY the priyllegIl
a class. The system Of esplonsse ana
secret agents. and detective CORPS ~
corruption Of the courts, judges lul-
;es. and the whole civic state was e.
YER IS great in old Rome before hsi