Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-21 | Page 5 | Human Nature

HUMAN MTURE 1 (BY DFt. WILLIAM E BARTON.) It Ifl v popular to abuse human nature. na-ture. A', hen a man does a contemptibly rnenn thing, we say, "W ill, it's human r ' SSS V-.- isaume eli-'.V;-'. Moa t1 ' It l:i hurn.Tn tin-. tin-. J&jfj- ' ' aPI t t" be dishonest. r'.", TfeJ i 1 h unkind. Thet P-- . J 1 tr-u1 It Is human C .. 3 r to do and I"' Cj A ' ' '-'' ev r li : l-c n L. 'i ! ' . i it. F ' vj.' I ; . ' .1 I ' ' r. . I ure r ' if k4r& ?' 1 I n- t'li- I . i I i : - . !l. It i i PsrafcjB1' ' PH ' t!'r tlr.n tin pr.tur." t .. : ot -n.ikea or ' I I ' ' "' . -J I'. " Is not r'JH ' to the r v.dr?-;jwW but It Is in ET1,'', v'y-- jcSa S human aatur I B53 ni.in who I BARTON i tore an i mean. 1 w-lll not pretend thai he I ever wholly ovorcaino a nature that was what it was by Inheritance and long truininn But bo became k bettor man and lived kindly and generously. To l" -sure, there wao always an element of I stinginess In his generosity, a vor of meanness In his goodn'cs; but there was a great transformation The wonder wits not that he was nof perfect, but that being o imperfect ho did so well. Human nature Is not fixed and unalterable unalter-able It has Changed Ire.- tho day of the cave men. It has not changed as much as It ought to have changed, and some of tho changes have nol Improved it I mueJi. Uut after all it has changed. TIi" human Jaw has shortened, i-nd the forehead haa r!s-n: the kindlier p issloni havi u li-. e, !., .. in thu Mind of the individual and the spirit of the race. I have read hiatory too much ond too carefully to suppose that In my own gen sratlori I am going to wltnetis any mlr aculous transformation of human life. Fui I do expect to die tieoing the world a little farther along toward the goal, and human nature a llttlo more human lli- n when ! began Thut hope gives me gre.t cour age, and I should like you to share it with me. 00