Show I I NORMALCY I IBy Is s By DR WILLIAM E E. E BARTON Mr Harding is not addicted to the habit of or phrase coining as were I Grover Cleveland Cleeland and Theodore Theodora Roosevelt but he ho knows the tho value of ot an unusual wora wore In provoking thought 1 He probably probably knows that there Is s such sucha a a word as normalcy r y but he said t normalcy and set us all aU to looKing it up There is more In the word than some people think I heard a doctor say a few tew days ago ngo that his profession had been on the wrong track In studying human lire life from the tho standpoint of or disease He lie said what th the tho doctors needed was to s study udy health and to turn furnish Ish conditions In which nature could produce the health which nature is more than willing to produce I I r have heard ministers admit that there had been a good deal of ot mislead I ing ing- theology I t that began with the tho assumption assumption as as- n that In hu human life sin rn was s f fI the natural condition Not very long ago sociology and human human human hu hu- huI hu- I man government were both studied as if It we were all savage but agreed to be I civilized for the sake of ot certain benefits resulting from civilization Whereas we were born civilized and if it we become savage sava it is a no revolt g the condition condition con con- In which we wo were born Health and not disease is the normal condition of ot human life lite Righteousness and not wickedness is Js normal Civilization Is Is' normal for- for those who were born civilized and ana savagery and brutality are arc abnormal Let it be granted that It Is easy enough for any of ot us to lose our health our goodness our civilization and to togo togo togo go back to whatever the race has risen above Nevertheless It Is true and we ought to know it that the normal condition of ot human life lite Is one of or generosity generosity gener gener- mutual helpfulness and of good wholesome living for body and mind It would do some learned men good and do the tho rest of us anything thing but harm to forget the abnormal and live in the light and anti wealth of mental and spiritual normalcy 4 |