Show THE GROWTH of CYNICISM in these days of moderation when war has ceased end and the sweat of la bors brow flows only eight hours a day a large part of humanity seems to be bent on finding some way of creating and enjoying misery when an animal ceases to be a terror it is made a pet of and this instinct is apparently patently ly being applied to mental tears fears while the people are happy as a whole the cheap cynicism that turns all things into ridicule that sees only the spots on the sun and makes misery a means of play is becoming more and more this tendency is plainly exemplified in many of the novels of the day that are thrust upon us we are treated to a set of hackneyed questions with whose answers we were formerly deluded into believing we were familiar tout but now it seems we were totally mistaken with all bluntness of superficial cynicism we are told that creation is a failure life a bore man a fraud and woman a plaything that marriage is a mis mistake a wite wife a trial a child a nuisance and goodness hypocrisy po crisy that evil to is detection friendship humbug genero generosity I 1 imbecility ty aai and d that thal money to is everything it esthe Is the epitome of a creed that seems to find and an increasing number of believers throughout the land but a creed that is s nothing but the expression of ta the insatiate desires of a moloch would see all that is dearest and best in our civilization delo debased ased and destroyed for the realization of condit conditions ionia that would dissolve all human ties usher in a reign of lustful and reason such euch as that which not so long ago prevailed in prance and bring national demoralization with it it it is also devotion to money and money getting to the misery and op on of the masses and such with all its concomitants of carru corruption eption so I 1 cial disruption and prostitution of s power means only inevitable decay v but cynicism such as this this mak ing of misery a means of play the v ridicule of all rightly existing condi eions and things though doubt leW harmless itself in a serious and clinine diate manner anner mi as far as the welfare of D the whole people is concerned ha nevertheless a tendency to ill III and it it be taken as a measure of the oar car bality or flippancy of the age it aug arg n not 0 t well because of its extent exten t forthe the success of christianity as it is and has baa been popularly applied nor yet does it ft speak much for the influences at wl woric i through atheism 4 socialism and peace disturbers which have ver pst the minds of the people tor for while fashionable religion may never penetrate the cononel of minds nor atheism or socialism tto ao much else than enter there to bried breeda license and discord it is due to td the talie re suits achieved by the first or rather the lack of results such as those re I 1 ligion is expected to produce that bahat the latter may partly have cause to exle but whether law religion or Infidel infidelity it n S a in their relation to organized hujo human g affairs be responsible through the j workings for the evolution of the cred i of cynicism as herein outlined 00 or whether it be but the pessimism of certain class whose god is m coriey whose will is a all 11 their law it is wllbur a creed that is becoming popular and the evidence of its popularity is kemt among other things in the incel increase corruption and crime the pursuit of pleasure and the interminable number 1 of a applications for divorce |