Show ANIMAL TRAITS t b. b LEAD TO TRAGEDY f j 4 Convincing Contrast of Lov Love Found in Jack London's Novel The Sea Wolf INSPIRATION OF AFFECTION n n a Unite Brute S 80 Dr Ir M 31 I. I r of ot First irti I Church Dr William m I M. M Plen Paden p r-etor r tor of ot th the I Mm m I rc l church In Jack Juk London Re w WoW Wolf n Ii mora monal M a as lit life Iti It point H a con con- between the tile divine and the Inhuman layer 1011 love love-ami antI H Illustrates lust rat en Actively the tragedy truely I thAt must mum Collow follow follow fol fol- low the animal life lire In man Dr Paden preached a strong trong sermon ennon on th the ml j l t last t night taking ax as hl hi text lext Man that In Is In lit honor and not 1 I. I Ilk like th the liam beaMa that p rl h. h I Psalms 19 ZO lIe He Maid said in inI k I it kF F t One On 0 of ot the mo most t soil and k cruel 1 stories I have hAYO ever tr read in is found f In Jack In-Jack Ja k- k Call ut Ht f tilt tile Wild lItI f. f Pew Few rot r rt of ot the UlI tragedy 11 of or animal lit lift have lucve ever e been written It linn Isas II Its Ita value vallIe of or orIta Ita it literary worth as WI an nit Illustration of ot I. I Seton Thomp onH un contention that nil all r. r animal stories H If Ir earn on far farenough ar JI enough u h mUM munt i nd In tragedy Till The I n hg which T I rl n ri I In story atory 0 r Win n Ita Ua ot of tin till nt necessity cl's ll of or r l 1 l nt er cruel I and t t. t tO f let t OH Ji fn In life o DC Ot 11 Ita hero I v. v w Waa Wis a s. doff dorfi hut In hi 11 time the bt beginning he lie r was waa a w well ll bore and nel well bred dog w lle h 1 y time tilt time he ht had hil become a u i iler among of oC th tIme Klondike Klon tI dike Uke ke ho wa Yas a ft v. wolf plus Illus a al t l hW w remnant of nl th the Ih of i I.- I. ZHI breeding back hac I. I of ut Min him imn TJI The ilie Whole I tJI fily seemed p Miu d to h be lie writ written tOn a as an nn cx ex- r cot f tIm the hardness NM HId I cruelly It of or the gold gold- ek r life lite Someone tys mYM th bet beat thing IH J th the German nu noveLs novel L at present IM Is J that UaRt one doe not need to read reat them r r- ope one know knows them already SInce rallIn road read Irig In The TIme Call CAli of or the Wild Ild I have ha had haI hadI I this OIls hi feeling con concerning the thc stories of ut Jack London I felt sure ure that hint hi hl next strong trong novel would have ha a an as It It hero what the JI French would t call a n A L for Klc k s' s Unite to the Ilu End litt 1 hen The Sea Wolf was anft an an- an r ft 1 It was is not necessary to tn read It 11 Itlo t 1 lo Id know what o of man the tw 8 g ft vir ul u would II hI be IH Within ti the last InKt f f. f SW fT weeks I have luwI rend renti this story The nU 8 i iVol Wolf Vol or ur Wolf olf 1 larsen II as fiR the thc tailors coil all him is lit even more and amI than I KlI gushed d he lie would J he bo boU heI J U I 1 Is Jill only fair however t to tn III stay iy that ho lie CUll can unruly hardly bo be called n a II degenerate t. t 10 Mr lila his creator makes him him Jalm if tc brute brute- te 11 time the very vory uttermost from ron U lh tiie very 11 beginning and holds j him true iut to this hi character I to 10 time the Cr very er end Hut But this soulless life of or his hi was net ilot Though he Ie spoke 0 of iiI his tint more moor hair haira a yeasty t f n a l In i c ru rh vA J I m h 1 Iv his n his U C emeRy cruelty ll was WI wasl l his inhumanity a part of ut his hi code hl his hardness 01 one ni of ot hi hi- cold d mi of ot getting his hi own o way vay Hud hint ho in lived NI on the animal lu nil all th the tim hu hV could not have haw h been Iteen ln au so IU wicked but html lie ne ac ascends to till the human I level I. I In HO so far tar OK RI reasoned thought Is human In order to find And ex excuses cx- cx en for Cur his hili ReIO selfish h cruelty or think nut methods of or his own self lIeU 1111 will and anel anela a way cay lie He IIo J Is th therefore worse than a a wolf or tiger Premeditated Inhumanity ty I Is always worse than plain brutality When n a man moan sets tiNs out ont to be hi hard or 01 cruel or Ot Inhuman Inh provided ho Ito has ha the and the time opportunity Ht at jita itis command lul ho Ite can cnn be more than thun a brute brutO I Not lt True Mr Mr r. r London suggests than his hc hero ro I Iwu wa wu was 81 limply pi the thc perfect typo of or the primitive a man a sort Bort of Of r reversion I to toC C saWery hut html he gives him too much I education Tho primitive o man to London would liken his hero had not rend read Darwin Darwin's Origin of oC the Spencer Spencers Data of or Ethics Hamlet or Drown Brown Ilik's Caliban on Sett He lie did not have the Intellectual outfit of ot Wolf Volf Larson Moreover lr he lIe did lid have havo fit t least th the beginnings of or a heart and mil a amoral moral nature Vc Vilf l I Larsen ii on n had Itati more motO thou thun tho the cruelty of ur this Ull primitive for hi had Intellectual saw go great geat abIlity Moreover Cr ho hu was more inure more In Inhuman to- to human than such a N g savage because he Iw had himself froin i all al human ties tics anil atit relationships he hC heas w as WL as an nn Inflate ho Ito eared cored areL for tor no 10 one omie hut but himself In all ni tho the world I BIm ht to t Self Wolf Volf L' L Larsons Larson's ship was wa however a rather hN good school for Cor Humphrey n Vh 1 VeLon n lie needed i some C such school 11 to harden harlen his hands hand toughen h sinews 9 and nOi lop develop his hi moral 9 the he ho made courage At nn any rate ate way I IW use of oC his discipline Is a fair Call example oC ot W the way any sturdy fellow v CeJo may b be brought to himself and his hil better beter elf sel In even such a chamber of ot her hor- hor rork elt As s u 1 writer wrier In the thc Critic says In rr of or the Sea So Wolf Volf oU H It I Is 18 surely tho story Of or th the making of or a man th the sculptor being Captain Larsen and nO living well do th thO clay tho the easy S 1 anti ana half hal drowned ninth man Van ta itY Hll appearances his helpless prey to Ono On feels reels a as aM one lays las down hewn th the ba beck l. l that moral morl courage capacity to the most niost rot of or adverse conditions and even Oven to get wisdom anti and Increase DIt Ii I In strength not not- merely In spite spie of or orth th but h by reason 11 of them are arc ar ni hi Il th the tI i more moore than Luau a match for fol brute at O e th and are aro much surer aure In iii tho thu end of or obtaining the good Kool things of ot the tita life that now IB Is 18 At length Van Ir life found the thc In Inspiration ton pH-ton ofa of ofa a n great gret affection Then he h began to Ih OI n a earnest AO dO he said si It I makes make something In life so 60 worth while that ono one Is not 10 loath lentil th to tile die tle for tor It I. I 1 I Co forget t ct my own life Ufo anti anil yet ct such Is the paradox par par- adox 1 I never wanted so gO much to 11 live n er alo tho the least t tw as right ight now when whon I pla place le w W vaUlt value c upon upon- my own life Ills Ils e egoistic struggle for or life now broadened nut and ami Jf JoIn an au ut struggle for tor tho the life of others other ft sl 1111 Thins III II I the tite Ill World Love Is the strongest thing In th the world It Is no mere saccharine nU I but hut the n or sugary benignity loVd lov of the tH strong on n of or God lilt God ln Im Immortal mortal love 10 Not Nor No Is It I Jove o which one omie tY may accept or refuse with Indifferent h eDt consequence It I Is 11 ono one of or lifes life's categorical cat cat- ct- ct Imperatives It I Is II tho the Tue Tho law of or gravitation link of oC th the tha law Jaw In IB is not Insistent t or more Imperative Imperil Impera 8 tive th-a Uthan than tho the law mIt of or love lovo lo e as ami n 1 U O l tI th SOIL Sou Sn SC it God t t 4 Wo We 0 have h c all ul heard U It I Thou shall tr r. f c. c o 7 M 4 A J love IO the It G with an all thy h rt and wih thou by thy JoY neigh neigh- her as br thyl That Is the or of Ch As A. m ni henry Van Yn Dyke has haa said Mid A that I. I Chris Chris- Dk han lov love loyf no not ur oty Crl- Crl a the th but Lut a. a s u. u the tron thing in II the th World |