Show IS CIVILIZED MAN MORIBUND speaking of the alarming decrease decre aie of births in france jacques bernillon Ber tillon in the temps tempi points out that hat the goa COB edition threatens the country with ruin fain in every respect the political and MI military gitary consequences are easily perceived since of necessity the army must decrease while those of other voun countries tries are increasing the wealth of the nation Is ii also affected afla eted the th 6 ex ports during the years yeara of 1867 76 Tea reached obed OD an average of francs jr nor in 1895 they increased to 3 8 during the same period the german exports from 74 franos the average for 1872 76 to the reason for ibis i 10 that the number of french does not increase while in germany the population has jumped bom 4 to lu in the ame way the intellectual IDAL of 0 prenod writers Is ii on the decrease A book written is ij french may be read fey by 46 while one written writ teli in ID berm n 1 is within the read of 4 and one in english of people the evla evils of a decrease ol of the birthrate are indeed far reaching another french author professor Fo Poul utilee quoted by the atte di kt arberia ieria ar however that this evil Is ie spreading throughout the civill sea d world and not only in france the united states canada australia ireat britain B ilium swi ferlano and the scandinavian countries are very much alike he asserts i tah gas with recard to the united peat 9 as attee too he be affirms that the nw new E jg ig land states st tes show about we the same birth fate to an ae france fra a ce the resso a he b a aisig do general decrease in ID the roun for tata abi 1 arise noted its ie that civilization to ie decrease anil and be gives sow 06 A the prods la in support of his hie tate state since 1881 the number of criminal caama in france has baa increased by although practically the population ladon has not increased at all especially has baa the number of murders and homicides hom in or eased up to 10 recent times italy reported the she largest percentage of criminals of this kind namely from to boo each y vear ear prance france has baa now the tad cad distinction fon of being in the lead the average in late years being a bout about while italy reported annually about SO 90 child murderers france now averages taking all the data daft together the criminality of france has ha just about doubled in the last fitly fifty yeara yeam the saddest feature about this increase is in the fact that it is proportionally greatest among the youth nth ot of the coun try the actual stuat fact to that the number or criminals who are yet children or youths to is twice DA aa large as the number of adult criminals criminal although france has omy eidy about seven even million children and roatha and twenty million adults in parta more mole than one half of the orlin crim lnla arre arrested sited are lesa ism than 21 years yeara of ag among children abil drou is in 11 the ate increase the years an average of of such M were ero brought to the attention of the authorities every year in 1830 there were but five suicides to every inhabitants in 1892 there were twenty four and the rate is increasing suicides of children under 16 were formerly lor merly unknown in france now there are on an average fifty five each year and in 1876 1875 there were suicides between 16 and 21 M fouillet Foul Fou illee then goe on to prove that the root of the evil may be ba found in the educational system of france and his reasoning oo on this abia point la Is applicable to other countries he says the fundamental fundamental error of the french system of education to is the predominance of purely intellectual and rationalistic ideas which we have inherited from the last century find and which assign to scientific knowledge a superiority over 0 ver and above moral principle in the training of men rabelais has already said that Know knowledge ledgA without conscience is the ruin of the soul PP on all sides ane warmest friends of education in france are entirely discouraged to cram the memory with names and dates date and facts does not supply the soul with thoughts that produce great feelings and crowd back vices it is in not the duty of the teacher to educate memories but to train consciences our present system of schools dissipates instead of concentrates it superficially skims over everything but penetrates nothing the abnormal development of the purely intellectual tel faculties characteristic of our eur day is a superficial semi education and is a detriment to our youth it does not supply the children with the principles that still strengthen them against temptation the true purpose of the school is in neither mere imparting nor mere training but to is training ning through imparting education H du cation ii not a trade nor a more mere function least of all a political function but is a moral and social mission it if this his be admitted the remedy is plainly it to is not so called morality OO but true that the ibe civilized world need beede that alone can stay tue decay that Is threaten dig Jest destruction ruction to the very life ot of the nations BE |