Show 1 I 1 PROGRESS THROUGH f DEPRESSION A period of depression fort forces men to take account of stock and this not only in its literal commercial sense but butin m in every relation of life even mans man's relation relation relation re re- re- re lation to the universe and still stillmore stillmore more widely the relation of society itself to its ultimate destiny Ve We may be sure that all this taking stock-taking material and spiritual individual and social so so- social social cial will result in discarding much that u we o o once I ce thou thought ht r J r I p redious even vital and also in creating new values for the new day Thus what we emotionally call depression may really mean meana a n new ascent or the compulsion to achieve one Science knows two types of ot ch change in the conformation conformation conformation con con- formation and condition of the earth and of its inhabitants inhabitants- slow Glow insensible secular change and Of the former the rising and sinking of continents continents con con- and the approach and withdrawal of ice ages are ex ex- ex- ex amples At this movement ment is an ice-age ice going or comin coming Nobody Nobody Nobody No No- body knows So in human society There are extreme me p pessimists who look upon our depression a aa as the beginning of a toboggan slide for mankind But here history comes to our aid end and besides we ve know vastly more about the causes of economic depressions s whether or not we ye kno y about the cause or causes of an ice age except that whatever whatever whatever what what- ever these may be we are ver vcr sure that they are not under our control We believe that thai when men bring on the next depression de de- de- de if if they do it do-it it will be ue because they have in the maIn mam sinned against light light- So man in spite of his fatal tendency to relapse not only is isnow isnow isnow now making good resolutions but will keep some of them This is what progress has always always always al al- al- al ways been not been not a full fun rising to the summons of the future but even at worst a partial one Man climbs the ladder adder of his destiny round by round flattering flattering flattering flatter flatter- ing himself that he is about to emerge at the top of his cloud- cloud hung ascent but even another step challenges his powers That ns lis his doom as man man half half halfway way between dust and deity Providence Journal |