Show THE TIlE countless charities and reforms which are the glory of this day in our I large cities are aro doing a n great groat work Vork for I what might be called indigenous reformation but even if carried to the the utmost limit of usefulness they thoy would woul accomplish little as compared to the the good resulting from the ml mighty rural rura influx i AN important argument in favor o ol 01 good gool roads and against against poor ones ia is i that the 45 tons of hay grown hero last year were wore moved moed at an nn expense ex ox p pense ponso of ot of twice as much power as wo would Il have havo been boon tho the case had good ro roads di prevailed Franco France spends ear to t keep her roads in repair ild lor is i only four times a as and i icren h he road roada as the improvement of thom them thoTh- thoTh is national affair run by the federal go OV 7 r. r it lies les with the tho farmers I to tc tomake Q make them thorn better It is for their benefit and not for pleasure seekers seeker S who wish vish to ride over them CIVILIZATION as a it exists no w is th the Le sum of what has been accomplished by all al the right human effort efort of the Le past past As far as it exists as a n real reality y yit it is a n change in the tho original human huma humaI Vu nature and all al accomplishments sue such b bas as a the machinery of production an and distribution through through the use of steam steal n nand and electricity manifestations 15 of 01 this change change If It I x x represents th the L original human nature whether of a a fallen alen Adam or a tailless ape an and 7 y y tho the change chango that has hn ta taren taen en place I in a him Mm take y y away and all al civilization t. t tion all steam and electric devices 3 all al arts all al sciences all al humanitieS humanities disappear with it it For civilization is i I something inside of men which man manifests mani iV i- i itself isel outwardly out V V WHILE unfair or or hostile hostie criticism is isto i I to be bo deprecated it must not bo be forgotten for for- 01 gotten goten that tho the author expressly y invites in Jr 1 V vites vitea vies public judgment and that ho he has hr LS no claim to favor lavor except as ho merits merit 5 it it Ho puts his wares on the market mark 11 with the tho unspoken declaration that Li they are aro worth tho the price asked an and d dR the time timo necessary to r read a them an and R anyone who finds them worth neither r rV V time nor money has express license t to 0 V say so Tho majority of authors author S 'S SV V understand this and accept criticism I even when hostile hosUl with as a good a n V grace aa as possible possible well ol knowing th that I IV Vt t V if i tho the criticism is deserved it i is i idle I to t 0 resent it i and that if i undeserved it i will do will m-d m nor book an any y injury There are some however who resent any unfavorable criticism n t as c an unjustifiable outrage outrage and insist t that those who cannot speak well wel ol 01 t their books book shall hold their Je peace peace ce V. V A GENERATION or or so a ago o children childre a aV V V were sent to t school almost as a soon as a LS they could walk wale and talk Then came cam Ve V a period during which they ire kept t thome at home homo until well wel along nong in their Ir IrV V I digits digite an and taught taught if i at all al at home hom The kindergarten avoids the tho objection n nto to tho the old way without entailing Ui the tho V a aV V serious serous loss of time incident to t th the Ve V new way The child can have a n groat great Lt deal of valuable information imparted impart impart- IV I- I V ed d to it without being subjected to tb tho Ve drudgery of ordinary study There is it i J no ultimate escape from Irom hard I and lots of it in i the acquisition of f k knowledge The path of intelligence 0 o is i steep steep narrow v and long To reach the tho templo temple of a good education or one e eV emust V must do a great deal of toiling at and d i make a business of it it lt but before belore e eV V V reaching the age at which one ono mr may y properly enter upon that hard ta task ik much information may bo gleaned in V half ball hal play through through the kindergarten UNTIL within a very recent perk period d dV V civilization has ha never ever been studied at atalL t V V alL alL alL' There Ther has ha been some theorizing g about it by poets poet poet historians and metaphysicians meta met a. a V physicians physicians but no study no slow at and id laborious putting together of the tho fac facts S of one century to the tho facts of V another anther to t reach the truth o of ii the te e eV V whole whole In this study the nineteenth nineteen Lb century has ha been pro-eminent pro at and Ld V from whatever standpoint tho the subject ct V has been approached the tho conclusion n has bas been reached that there is a pu pur purpose pur purpose Lr pose in civilization ab above e tho the co conscious con n- n V scions purposes of any or all al who have ia ave ye worked from century to century to bring it about Tho The materialists Is among among evolutionists evolutionist who deduce ci civilization v- v from brutes with wih the hi highest highe hest istee possibilities of humanity in them agree ee in itt this with tho sternest theologians theologians s who deduce it i from a fallen falen mai man a I V with wih the lowest possibilities of 01 brut brutal brutality LIV LI- LI in him him- ity ij THERE are other tha than purely political ti V cal and economic issues which in i o our ur day clay challenge public attention a and ad deserve thoughtful consideration And A ad mon the these e pertinent Issues is t the ha source from whence wo are aro to draw w 0 u 0 drw |