Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-22
The Capitalization Of Mankind
BV DR.. Frank Crane

\ T a moving picture show the other day
~ / saw thrown upon the screen IL
- Illustration of how crystals are formed.
First we shown a colorless liquid, then
bit of crystallization began to form at one
side. 1t spread by rapid growth, in a sue
cession of jerking adjustments, developing
like tree throwing out branches, until the
whole surface was composed of sparkling
crystals instead of clear liquid.
That is a good figure of the growth Of
the coming state, into which all citizens of
the world shall be organized.
1t begins by forming small groups; these
unite, become larger and larger, as drops
OF rain upon the window, until finally they
are all one.
The unity of the world, the World State,
is not dreamer's fancy 1t is a logical
conclusion. 1t is q. e. d. from which there
is no escape.
Better, it has it's argument in the instincts
OF the race Reason may so astray; in
stinct persists from generation to generation,
and lives long as human progeny.
One of the primal instincts of human be-
ngs is to form groups. The gang" impulse
is Just dominant in your school yard to-
day as it was in the stone age. Boye love
our crowd and girls ''our SET
There are few stronger passions among
die for his tribe; the fierce loyalty of Scot
fish clans, in the days of the border war, is
we'll known; the
Poor benighted Hindu
He does the best he kin do,
He sticks to his caste
Unto the last"
and history and tradition are full of exam
pies of how the love of family, tribe, church.
or nation can wholly swallow up the love
of self.
So that those who make selfishness the
keynote of economics or of history are blind
to the facts Selfish indiydualism gives
way every time to the force of a passionate
group instinct
Politics is the story of the wider and con-
stantly more complete crystalliZation of the
people into the governing machinery. This
is what is sgnified by democracy, which is
rot loosening or diminution of govern
ment but an absorption of the entire mass
of the citizens into the government
The various religious sects have been
ramifications of the crystallizing process of
the religious feeling. They form ever new
branches. Innumerable heresies offshoot,
new prophets arise, new movements. This
does not mean the dissolution, it means the
formation of religious unity. If you want
to know how that is done look at the form
ing of crystal One of the ancient prophets
thus spoke
Behold the days come, saith the Lord,
when / shall make new covenant, not ike
the old; and this is the covenant / Will
make after those days; | will put my laws
into their minds and write them IN their
hearts; and | will be unto them COD,
and they shall be unto me a PEOPLE.
A People, Thai is the final crystalllza-
ton Of everything human. Perfect govern
ment is the whole People organized into
machine Of self-expresson, SO contrived that
every man and woman finds an interest IN
the politics of the precinct, city, state and
nation The perfect Church is the whole
people organized upon a basis where every
human being can find welcome and oppor-
tunity for inspiratio and service. The per
feet school is the whole People organized
to give every one of their children support
and training during adolescence. Perfect
Business is where the whole People are or
eanized to give every man place to work,
and the earnings from labor are justly dis
tributed so that the profits of the individual
service 90 to the individual and the profits
of the rganization go to the whole People
for their communal needs.
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