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Show FROM DEAD MONARCHIES TO NEW DEMOCRACIES. Is this world's war but the working af Immutable law? Is it an evolution out of which must come good? Dr. Frank Crane makes an answer, -which Is an affirmative, in tho following: "Thou fool, that -which thou sowest is not quickened except it die." Thoro is no lifo that Is not prepared by death. Death is the door of life. A grain of wheat may live in one of two ways it may bo planted and grow other grains, or it may be made into bread and nourish men. In both cases it must bo destroyed before it is rendered useful. It must rot in the ground to sprout, or It must be ground to flour in order to make a loaf. Tho applo blossom's exquisite existence perishes so that the fruit may come into life. All living things emerge from the womb of death. Every dollar dol-lar of profit is tho spent lifo of some worker. Life is an endless procession. All living things go down into death and come up again having received the strange baptism of new life. Tho pianis, me hocks, mo numan creatures crea-tures of today all move toward decay; a short time and everything that now is alive will be gone, to make way for the next order of living things. Lifo is not a continuous stream; It is a pulsation, a coming and going. You eat to sustain life, but every viand on your table represents destruction; your meats are slain animals, your fruits, vegetables, and cereals are slain plants. The purveyor of your feast is Death. Old ideas and boliefs likewise perish that the new may draw sustenance from their dissolution. dissolu-tion. From tho death of the old credulities arises tho beauty of faith. Out of decayed theologies come the new humanities. From dead monarchies monarch-ies are fed now democracies. Astrology, Astrol-ogy, necromancy, magic, and the like perished, and from their mould sprung up astronomy, psychology, biology, all tho vigor of the young sciences. |