| Show CO OPERATION IS WISE SA YS BENNETT J t f. f Unitarian P Pastor as t or Points P. P Out Ii Defects D fets of Human Competition Corn Corn- 1 p petition tI lon c. ry At t the th Unitarian church Re Rev Fred- Fred ft lc SI 1 Bennett Dennett spoke poke on tho the sub sub- f The Jhc Only Rational Competition e B d In pa part part t Iv The c The Thc re real 1 battle ground round o oC life liCe I is th t in which humans strive trivo with witt phY Jeal forces which tend to dissolution n nV n. n V We jace live ha to win our right to livo Iho b by a a aco co congest est with Hh the inanimate We com com- ner l' l nature to yield what she he hc has to toS F S give Ive only as we adapt nature to ourE our- our E Eles es and md ourselves to nature When hon I lire life becomes passive nature quickly quick 1 blots bioU it nut nut- This Is real competition But when hen refuses to operate co with nature It is soon overcome What hat n to an any modern city cHy who whose e Inhabitants should refuse refuge to serve ne each other otheT in any inY ny u There would soon l cense to be citizens in that city Wo We keep our life ife quality only as we comi com corn i 4 note with nature We re gain moral quality It ity only as we co with other otherS S live for strength an and nd for tor lifes life's ln- ln f crease The rite competition with ith nature i is isy y 5 therefore th tho only rational one for hu hu- man nun beings We need not maintain war ar upon our kind for tho the of keeping human courage and mafli manly virtue virtue- Our contest with nature will wil sufficient incentive for tor that ItIs' ItIs Jt It t is Is' assumed that conflict of life with life has raised man in the scale of at be being be- be ing But such competition has done ao 90 only nl by virtue of ot th the tho fact act that It ini in- in i creates the tho capacity of rendering norv- norv 5 ice to life Ufo The victor fetor who crushes a aI I rival rl must earn carry his rivals rival's load in ad ad- td id his own if ho would keep hl his place Ho Ito must render a lar larger er ser l ice So O competition is productive only onh as its efforts are creative and arid service service- able Strength th which might go into Is absorbed in inc creating and ana producing conflict SocIety Society Is IB by its I- I j c the Immoral it is la lanot ver very nature co Where not It is 15 not really human society but human buman chaos or worse That a man can bettor better himself by bv Ji ft destroying his competitors competitor's power t to toj foolishness That he j work Is 18 in reality ii can uplift the social order by such ac- ac n is simply untrue Ho may get rich richy y euch uch action but he must add hI his hie and he makes victims work to his own poorer b by bringing his enemy to the plane of or non productive dependence depend depend- ence He Ho may lord it over his follow fellow and Impoverish his own character charac charac- ter b by the he act Then ho m may dish diAb out his bis dole and add tho the tyranny of ot conquest conquest con con- quest Q to the injustice of his charit charity He Th must carry tho greater burden Inthis in inthis this unsocial strife and the tho moral ef effect ef- ef feet teet of his action and position is de degrading dc- dc c. c grading to all aU concerned He who wins I b by such comp competitive strife may mayi V i be richer In possession and power but be he is poorer in those human qualities c which enter into tho the making of ot true manhood The moral degradation der o of any kind of ot r slavery Is greater on thur thu tho r one who ho enslaves than on tho the slave Th Then n there is that distress which I one should feel fee ce for him who ho Is cast down doun and find out ont through h human conflict If It we wo are truly human we cnn can not forget for for- get iet tho those e whose service ice our advantage ad that hat destroyed cd Yh Wit t l' l In nd ld of or a gain gam gamt ain Is 18 that which c cof t fie te c u of hum human h welfare I Ii- Ii rl l. ha having lean Can it really 1 be pO r i What kindOr kind of Or a 15 conscience is that can be content with such What kindor kind of or heroism m Is that which demands to tobe tobe be bc worshipped for 01 Or It Its ability to feed on ther human lives What hat kind or wor- wor TIp nip i is Is that t. which without itself at the thc expense of oC the interests of the many man whom it il compels compels' com com- to sel Is It worth the praise u St demands nn and too toe often receives Is Is not liot inot he who is great by 11 being the 1 rant ant of Or all more worthy worth of ot reverence reverence fy Competition with our OUT fellows is not only Irreligious but it is foolish Co- Co lives H t IB Ic simple with human Service Ice in the Interest of or the life is to the on only way to the masterY master of or life The common enemy enem is ls found round only in ill that wear and drag drog of or nature which It Is our function unction to overcome o In the process of enriching the world and In completing completing- the di- di womanhood which ivine lne F Inc manhood and has lIas me meant nt to place pace within tho 1 l reach cach of or tilt all his children 5 |
