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Show Ethics teaches us all . struggle must be under1 wtur icU0lti.u akcn in tl10 Borvic f a higher and greater causo 3Rlt ft1lTtrfrfl tllnn. our egotistic self. t-Z) "yy lie alone will conquer ' 4 ' who fights for something V By DR. PAUL CARUS. greater than his personal interests; and even if ho 1 is vanquished ho will still have tho satisfaction that his ideal is not conquered with him. lie will find successors to do his work. The Teutonic nations in many respects, it appears, arc tho most suc-a suc-a cess ful peoples in the world, because of their stern ethics of undaunted struggle to which they havo adhered sinco prehistoric times. It was no disgrace for tho Teutonic warrior to bo slain, no dishonor to bo vanquished; ' " but it was infamy worse than death to bo a coward, it was a disgrace to gain a victory by dishonest means. Tho enemy was relentlessly combated, maybe ho was hated, yet it would navo been a blot on one's escutcheon to treat him with meanness. It was not uncommon among tho barbarians for the victor to place a laurel wreath upon tho gravo of his foo whom in life ho had combated with bitterest hatred. There is an episode told in the Nibclungcn saga which cluiracterizcs tho ethical spirit of the combative-ness combative-ness of Teutonic heroes. Margrave has to meet the grim Ilagen and to do him battle. Seeing, however, that his enemy's shield was hacked to pieces, he offers him his own, whereupon they proceed to fight. A wonderful harmony results from tho conflict of antagonistic principles. Nay, we shall learn that all rrmW order proceeds from the antagonism of factors that ' work in opposite directions. It is the centrifugal and 4 & " - centripetal forces that shapo our earth and keep it in mmWjLj' equilibrium. It is attraction and repulsion that govern ikjkjflflWl the changes of chemistry. Gravitation throws all things mmmJi ' v into one center and radiation disperses tho storo of energy collected in that center. And tho samo antithesis MLjAjfj'1 of hostile principles manifests itself in lovo and hate, HLjjl surfeit and hunger, in hope and fear. w-JMCZZ CAB& |
