Show STARTLING FACTS I 1 the alarming condition of retrogression trog which our I 1 las I 1 census I 1 INOR increasing EASING DEMENTIA I 1 i with tho increase of po popular pular education insanity idiocy suicide vice divorce and illegitimacy it I 1 keep pace a 1 t f the following ia is an extract from a notable article contributed to by J H seelye under tinder the caption of should thea State teach religion 1 4 in no previous ago age has there been such an enormous expenditure for popular education ae as in irr our own the school property of the united stales states haa has cost and we pay over a it year for teachers england france Belg belgium iuT germany show a like outlay while else where in america and europe the efforts in the same direction are only in h a less degree in extent alq an d energy the movement for popular education at tho present day dwarfs thomb of all preceding time etisa it is a striking fact which all insist mus bajo noted that this movement seeks to sever itself more and more from all religious guidance the efro efforts ili to secularize pur education bao wn with our efforts to extend it until it may bo be questioned which oft of these heso now have the larger force and volume yo lunic this procedure prope dure haa bas continued continue di long elou enough oh and on a scale sufficiently jar large g to warrant us in aftem attempting to draw instruction from its results eul ts hag has it met our expectations la Is society ga paining ilLing the good which it beeks in this way vay I 1 f the darkest figures in our last laii census are no those relating to literacy in 1850 the ratio of the insane in our population was one to 1486 i in n 1800 it was one to 1306 in 1870 it was on to 1030 ond in 1880 it wag was onoto one jo in WO 1650 ther the ratio a tie of I 1 idiotic diotio persons person if among ui u was one to 1460 in 1880 1480 it was one to in 1350 1830 ono on out of every 2 2305 0 of our population was a deaf mute imite in 1880 the tile proportion was o 0 out of 1197 thirty deais years ago our census reported one out of 2307 2367 as blind while our last census reports one out of 1033 these differences cannot be wholly due to the difference of accuracy in our census reports for they have their parallel paralle lt elsewhere the increase 1 1 ty during the tho pr present ICS been D 1 ell stead anglun Iver sali n the tile civilized woul dand has been exactly pro portioned ll 11 on ed to the growth glowth of what we aorl have called our civilization in england and wales the idiotic and insane have well nigh doubled in clip last twenty years the ratio of ini 4 sanity among the scandinavians among whom education may be said to bo be universal IA fi three and four tenths to 1000 among the germans it is three to 1000 but among the lees less educated peoples it is one to 1000 while among the uncultured onic races it is only six tenths to 1000 similar might be given in relation to crime and vice and pauperism and divorce and illegitimacy and vagrancy and suicide that these are on the increase in our beat best educated states will hardly be doubted by persons Vell all informed while there is an easy liability to error in making sweeping social deductions from social statistics and while one needs great caution in using such figures as I 1 have cited their general drift is supported by other and wider facts the I 1 tv 0 o institutions upon which the very existence ofa society depends are property and tho the fam family ily but there haa has certainly never been such a avar war against these as in this enli enlightened t nineteenth century and no nowhere w Is the struggle carried forward with such fierce animosity as in the cities and states most cons for their culture Thelea the leaders dersin in this war the men who are aiming timing we their i f r weapons most relentlessly at the the he very heart of society are ate amo among he ripest fruits of that culture by b which society is nevertheless beg seeking I 1 ite salvation of flie hem mare are choice choice products of cpr pur kuniye deities rei ties all al 1 l this tuis ia ia properly the ra result of our present educational math ode need not now ha he argued it ia in enough to not ehat talat the tile education to which we are giving such prodigious endrey of destroying desiro ying the real pe perils r of society dope not even diminish 1 I wall these but suffers them to in crease trease enormously it is a grave question whether by tills procedure we are not lighting the torch of blia incendiary cen diary rather jah thai a of tajo gui ap it ills is nut nat the illiteracy of any tiny people eople bat their immorality it is jr iao of their knowledge hut their vir treon which either choir Ocal destruction ruction or 01 their salvation bation binges bingea a familiar I 1 ing ng nevertheless constant reiteration but the morality of a people is not pec secured tired by teaching v 1 kera neoral prec precept ellas Si I 1 V a en I 1 era re nat mape made by intro instruction alop in ailt o 0 I 1 tie chaleyer Wha leyer he e 41 ls explanation the fact will not be doubt od d that no tio moral renovation of co society le wo ever beca accomplished by tho the te teaching achins of worn morality lity however pure pur the introduction therefore of mora moral ei instruction in our schools to any extent if it go no farther than th an the like teaching of moral pre precept cento jw y 11 give neither ulc 10 e anu ro DOE xiii culture uro to 0 the nar W I 1 rf bavand I 1 wise ly IT said bald dato you must act according 11 ag to the will vill of bod 11 in the in fie actual condition of o 0 tell religious clovd considerations bider side rations a tio s aro are their indis indispensable motive to virtue even ave 4 if I 1 il should bo be claimed though I 1 do not it could bo proven i that pertain individuals are moral without any I 1 religious restraint this tills would nev never or be affirmed of the masses of wa mankind I 1 IDI without P question I 1 n tl tho t great r eat mora moral I 1 reformation qua ki pr O 0 have boen wro by religion gion A quickening bulc furnishes the actually efficient 1110 inspiration to any illy people the reason why ethical teaching of any any bortl sort if 1 be 40 aply I 1 r I 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 1 ethical never has and never cai can moye move men to virtue ie Is bat that not nothing ii ling ever over moves roane mans will but a will either his own mill in its pure and freo free self determination or another mans will brought to bear in person 1 al I influence upon him or goda will as a supreme sovereign requiring a pers personal orin I 1 obedience to his personal commands men are not governed no man mail lg Is nor any child by their understandings gs personal power la Is tho tile only power over human conduct and gods personal supremacy a divine command and a divine sanc tion must be added to the moral precept in I 1 n order to give it the constraining force needful to a moral life the words of kant are ever weigh weighty when he be tells us without a god GO T and without a world invisible to us now but hoped for the glorious idea hea of ethics may indeed bo be objects of ap probation ro bation and admiration but cannot be go the springs of purpose and action A false rel religion iRion will be found more conducive to virtue than no religion without inquiring as to what might or what might not be true in respect of tho the moral life in any given in ina stance of a cultivated or an vatch atheist or irreligious man there need be no hesi atlon in affirming either from the facts of human nature or of history that an tin atheistic people a people without religion if lucli sue could be could not have even virtue enough to maintain themselves vea as a people it is therefore so evident that it may almost be called self evident that the religious instruction of the people is indispensable indi 11 pen sible I 1 I 1 will not say to their welfare but to th their air very existence JT IT 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