The Washington times., 1924-04-22
HEREDITY
STRESSED BY
BURBANK
Plant Wizard Declares Too
Many People Are Careless
of Natural Law:
BY FRED j. WALKER.
Cosmopolitan News Service.


Cosmopolitan News Service.
SANTA ROSA, Calf, April 49,
"a good heredity from a clean, up
right ancestry is more to be desired
than all of the titles, honors and
wealth that the earth can ever be-
stow"
This was the outline given today
by Luther Burbank, famed natural
list and plant wizard of the main
reason for the/ present precarious
position of humanity, through the
failure Of men to observe one Of
the simple laws of nature.
Too many humans today lack such
heredity, Burbank believes, and be-
cause of this lack are unable to pro-
duce good children or good work In
any chosen line.
Man Must Change Views.
UNLESS man changes his views on
such subjects and begins to follow
natural laws, the civilized races are
doomed" Burbank said.
In the rush after wealth, or po'
sition, or even pretty faces, the av'
erage human pays no more atten'
ton to natural laws, which exceed
in importance man-made laws, than
If they did not exist, apparently lg
noring them altogether, he added.
Religion and education, morals
and ethics are among the subjects
that need revision if new and
better civilization is to emerge from
our present REORGANIZATION, Bur
bank believes. He said:
This ignoring of the laws OF
life itself has Brought the world to
point where a decision will either
plunge the race into an abyss or
lift it to higher levels. The choice
is for every thinking person in the
world today.
"Cheerfuiness, good health, thrift
and ability to concentrate and per-
sist is a precious heritage.
Haltered AT Birth.
Millions of half men are ushered
into life who are in themselves
wholly incapable of self.respect, self
control and self-determination and
only by some unusual drug or
stimulant can they be even brought
up to concert pitch so to speak,
for brief space; in other words, up
to. normal, average condition of
ability TO become self-supporting
through life without infringing on
the normal rights of others or to
enjoy the ordinary pursuits of life
with relish and full appreciation.
1.-THE man or woman endowed
with normal nervous system rare
ly Graves these various stimulants
and IL so, is able to restrain the
craving.
Evil there ever be any help for
this. Only one. Not by laws
through punishment; not through
religious teachings; not by our ordi.
nary educational methods. 1t must
and will come from methods similar
to those that have produced and are
producing our best grains, fruit and
flowers.
''Our present partial state of
civilization has been acquired by
conscious and half-conscious selec.
ton Of the best and rejection of
some of those unfit.
No One Above Law
''If we must have the stupendous
pride and effrontery of placing our
selves above the ordinary every day
laws Of" the universe, we bring
destruction to ourselves like the
fool who builds his tinsel house
upon shifting sands.
mo amount nor any kind of
treatment or education or other
palliative cure can ever obliterate
the heredity defects of the race.
lncompetents and criminals are
born with these defects. Why not
accept this fact sQuarely.
1.-THE world will continue to be a
slaughter house-aTi insane asylum,
imbeciles and incompetents will con-
tinue to talk the earth until the
truth shall at last percolate into the
minds Of all that the unavoidable
and Interchangeable laws Of nature
which apply to the government of
domestic animals and plants apply
equally to human beings.
Humanity had been threatened
with a sick spell for a long time
before the Great War. That was
merely the incident which brought
it out and exposed the numerous
ailments with which society is SUI.
fering and which 1t breads to con.
slider even today.
Man has been going forward
through all the ages, and even
this disease with which we, are
now afflicted is a cleansing pro.
cess. This disease I speak of is
lack of enough civilizations to re-
strain ourselves from the disease of
war.
Thinkers today have a new at.
titude toward religion, education,
business and similar subjects.
Natural Law.
"The average man on the street
who thinks every ethical disease
can be cured by making human
laws may laugh at the idea that
there are natural ethical laws which
cannot be subverted with inpunity
without leading humanity to de.
struction.
IF. man will not think of these
subjects and try TO rectify the dis.
eases which are a part of our
intellectual and ephysical life, our
so'called civilization is hardly worth
preserving"
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