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Show 1111 DON'T BE RADICAL. WHEN we see sudden and radical changes being be-ing inaugurated in our social, educational, religious and other affairs of life, we are reminded of a number of positivo and radical departures along these lines that we have noted in the past, and which enthusiasts have stoutly maintained wore unqualifiedly right, which experience ex-perience has subsequently proven to be fallacies. We have noted, particularly in the medical profession, ideas and specifics in relation to treatment treat-ment of diseases change so frequently that we are led to question how much is really known by the medical profession in regard to the effect different drugs and applications have upon the human system. Of course, the doctor of today will tell us that a lot of mistakes were made in the past by members mem-bers of the profession, and that erroneous ideas were entertained, but that the profession is now on the right track, and that the generally adopted measures and remedies are "pat." But when every little while we see radical changes being made, things that were condemned a few years since taken up and adopted, and practices of a few years back, and to which we clung with the tenacity of life itself, generally condemned, we wonder how long it will be before the product of a future school will reverse the practices and opinions of today. With the educators radical changes are also being adopted. Some will prove beneficial, others, we fear, will prove to be fallacies. Children in the primary grades are no longer taught the alphabet, al-phabet, and in many cases not even tho multi- ; plication tables, except as they may acquire them incidentally by the application of more advanced ; study. Children are not permitted to appeal to , their teachers for relief or redress for the abuse ; by larger students, ag this is regarded as tale bearing, und is condemmned. Following up the same line of thought and action it will probably be only a short time until courts will be abolished, and we will return to first principles, where might made right, and the weaker ones of the " TaT1H-be-x-termiimtdrB6ubtk&tVws-a?fe enthusiasts who will tell you that this is what should be done : that it would be the means of improving the physique of the race. But society at present, we imagine, is not quite ready for so radical a departure from present conditions. condi-tions. Then ought our children to be given the same kind of medicine ? Our advice is to move slowly in such matters, , Test out these new departures pretty thoroughly ; and be sure that they are improvements before they are generally adopted. Avoid radicalism, : while yet maintaining a sharp lookout for im-provements, im-provements, and the evolution of society towards . a higher plane will be exempt from many of the mis-steps that have marked our progress in the . past. |