Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-10-09 | Page 2 | Should Copy Nature's Way

SHOULD COPY NATURE'S WAY Human Planners of Reform Would Do Well to Make Note of Her Methods. The divergence between man's ways and nature's ways becomes emphasized empha-sized as we reflect on the mass of reforms re-forms and isms which are eagerly urged for the education and the moral mor-al and physical welfare of our youth, remarks the Brooklyn Eagle,. One group wants trade training, one group "sex hygiene" taught in the schools, and another wants nonsectarian religious re-ligious training there. Still another tells us that marriage is becoming more and more difficult, while vice and diseases which spring from it are increasing at a rate which threatens race extinction, of perhaps the decay of the now. dominant races and replacing replac-ing them by stock nearer to the soil and less easily molded by our present pres-ent social ideals. The discouraging thing about all this is that very few of these enthusiasts enthusi-asts realize that they all have hold of corners of the same problem, and there is no sign of co-operation, coordination co-ordination or coherence among them. That is the reverse of nature's way. She is synthetic, while the most that altruistic human planners seem able to do is to separate process'.-s which nature has grouped, analyze I hem and, when any growth proves sickly or too lufih, to treat its particular symptoms without tracing the root of tht-. disease.