Show The Unemployed f The TIle Po Popular ul r Science Ai Monthly i iII II WHEN a condition of things supervenes supervenes super super- venes in which a considerable percentage percent percent- age of the population is cut off from the means of support by lack of work w we need not hesitate to say that something is wrong With these words the editor begins his article on The Unemployed The same words or words with like meaning have been echoing through the land for the last year year from press pulpit and platform so that so far as the stating of the case goes the article gives us nothing new But in hi his statement of the causes of this something something some thing wrong the edi editor tor gI gives ves his readers something more definite we believe than anything else yet presented upon this vital subject He lays down as the general cause of present suffering and disaster mans tinkering with natural laws in a futile effort to amend them Under this he belt believes eves come preeminently false systems of education education- unfitting men for the natural conditions in which they are inevitably placed Yet we find some inconsistency in the the 1 main main position of the article for the writer riter finds the remedy in II the sedulous cultivation of a higher sense of citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- n- n ship thus plainly implying that the natural laws which govern human association association association asso asso- and progress are in some way subject to modification by human effort Indeed this is made very plain when he comes to explaining how this sense of higher citizenship may be cultivated f How is that going to be done someone someone someone some some- one will ask Do you believe in it yourself we rejoin Do you believe that the average sense of citizenship or to express it otherwise the average sense of duty to the State is low and if so are you personally willing to set a higher exam example pIe and courageously and strenuously uphold a higher doctrine If so you need not ask how the thing is going to be e done for you see the way yourself If not we do not wonder at your jour skepticism as to that being possible possible possible pos pos- sible which you are personally unwilling to undertake The evil then does not consist essentially in mans man's interference with the processes of nature but in his wrong interference in his acting without without without with with- out due knowledge of those processes And so far tar from there being too much education as the writer implies the only trouble is that there is not enough that educational methods being false results are not what they should be and that these very false methods presuppose presuppose presuppose pre pre- suppose lack of knowledge of law and therefore lack of education t. t |