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THE UNITED AMERICAN
APRIL 1925
alisms that have fastened their tentacles upon our
very vitals as a nation.
The spiritual mirror of right and wrong must be
replaced in the mind of the American citizen. The
fundamental laws of society must again become a po­
tential force, the mental ballast of the individual. The
unwritten law of give and take must again begin tc
function, opening the way to wipe from our statute
books some of the prohibitive and liberty infringing
laws that we have lately been busy cluttering up the
machinery with. To prohibit to others that which we
find means to indulge in ourselves, is a pernicious,
practice anywhere and most condemnable in the
United States of America.
Self-government begins with the individual. Where
the individual consciousness is properly developed
there will be little need for stringent and complicated
lawmaking. A people that is everlastingly busy creat­
ing laws of restraint is showing an alarming deprecia­
tion of moral and civic consciousness.
The spiritual law, “love thy neighbor as thy self”
might be stressed to advantage where this situation
has developed. “Do unto others as you want others to
do unto you” is a code that is hard to improve upon
A few of these basic laws, with a spiritual meaning,
if properly imbedded in the mind, would remove the
cause for the over-abundance of state legislation that
we suffer from at the present time, and place the re­
sponsibility in citizenship upon the individual where
it belongs.
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There are omens indicating a return to better
business principles among American businessmen.
Religion may not mix in the business of the get-
rich-quick type of citizen, whose “phenominal”
success invariably leads to the lowlands of doubt, dis­
repute and hate and seldom if ever to the higher
levels of faith, esteem and love; but religion is never­
theless a cogent element for permanence in business
and for ample remuneration for-well directed efforts.
The American with a promise of permanence, whether
he is native or foreign-born, is the man who believes
in religion in business and the practical application
of the Golden Rule.
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All our group movements for the uplift of the
individual, to which the businessman of our day is giv­
ing so much time and attention, may be all for the
betterment of humanity, but if we had more of indi­
vidual application, more of a spiritual concern in the
well-being of our fellowmen and the spiritual welfare of
our country, more of the practice of right thinking
and living, it is beyond all doubt that we would be
striking at roots of the cause for our multiplied social
¡and industrial ailments.
The trained and well paid scientific social worker
may be all right, but if he is to be permanently left
on the job to keep up our moral and social standards,
we venture to predict that the social agencies will have
to multiply until it erelong will become necessary to
¡place a social worker in a supervising and sustaining
Icontact with every other American home.
What we need is the good old-fashioned individual
I example everywhere, in our business and home life,
in our work and in our play, a revival of the spiritual
concept of life; and we are old fashioned enough to
believe that the effect would be a lessening of the
apparently growing need for stringent legislation and
regulation and for uplift work in every direction where
the breaking down of the individual morale is calling
for attention.
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
By Charles W. Pugsley, President, State College, South Dakota
A FEW YEARS ago, when science was a bit
younger, people became confused because it
appeared on the surface that science and religion
were in conflict. As a matter of fact it was only
the teachers of science and religion who were in
conflict. It was their notions and ideas. Science and
God can never be in conflict for they are one and the
same. Science is truth. God is truth. We may not
know the truth wholly, and hence may not be able to.
make our ideas of God and our ideas of a scientific
fact coincide.
Throughout the historic age man has changed his
ideas of fact, Recently he has been passing rapidly
from the age of superstition to the age of knowledge.
The first effect of this was to shake his belief in
God, because the facts as he discovered them did not
conform to God as God had been taught to him. The
effect today, as our knowledge advances, and as
superstition is crowded more and more into the back­
ground, is to strengthen our belief in God.
The helper yonder aids the helper here.
— Goethe.
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