Show lifes battle WE ARE constantly speaking of the struggle for life and calling life a battle but we do da not see that our very existence and the fact that we have a battle to fight are due to the struggles and triumphs of those who have gone before us we think that some strange thing has happened to us and that our lot is an unusually hard one but such thoughts are altogether unworthy our fathers found life as hard a battle as we do and it if they had not fought we should not be alive to fight every stage of human history is the outwork ing of the same destiny and it is in fulfilling ours and entering well into the struggle for life as arranged for us that we do our part toward perpetuating the moral life of humanity we are descendants and somebody is responsible for us we are progenitors and we are responsible for somebody |