The Chemawa American, April 09, 1930, Page 3, Image 3

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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOB SCHOOL CHILDREN
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Man, the Arifex, will ultimately master Nature and
reign supreme over his own creation until chaos shall
come again.
Man is the tool-making animal, and the machine,
that is the power-driven tool, is his peculiar achieve­
ment. It is purely a creation of the human mind.
If man cannot improve upon nature he has no motive
for making anything. Artificial products are therefore
superior to natural products, otherwise they would
have no reason for existence.
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It is by overcoming nature that man can rise. The
sole salvation of the human race lies in the removal
of the primeval curse, the sentence of hard labor for
life that was imposed on man as he left Paradise.
Science and Christianity are one in abhorring the
natural man and calling upon the civilized man to
fight and subdue him. The conquest of nature, not
the imitation of nature, is the whole duty of man.
Within the last century it has been discovered that
neither human nor animal servitude is necessary to
give man leisure for the higher life, for by means of
the machine he can do the work of giants without
exhaustion.
Anarchy is the natural state of the human race. It
prevailed exclusively all over the world up to some
five thousand years ago, since which a few people have
for a time suceeded in establishing a certain degree
of peace and order.
Nature is our treacherous and unsleeping foe, ever
to be feared and watched and circumvented, for at any
moment and in spite of all our vigilance she may wipe
out the human race by famine, pestilence or earthquake
and within a few centuries obliterate every trace of its
achievement.
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Man can only convert three or four thousand calories
of energy a day and he does that very inefficiently, but
he can make an engine that will handle a hundred times
that, twice as efficiently and three times as long. In
this way only can he get rid of pain and toil, and gain
the wealth he wants.
One of our valued subscribers sent us the following
article with the request that we give it publication,
which we are pleased to do:
These beautiful ideals for children originated in
Czechoslovakia. They have been taken up in other
countries and are on the bulletin boards of countless
schools.
1. Love your schoolmates; they will be your com­
panions for life and work.
2. Love instruction, the food of the spirit. Be thank­
ful to your teachers as to your own parents.
3. Consecrate every day by one good useful deed
and kindness.
4. Honor all honest people; esteem men but humble
yourself before no man.
5. Suppress all hatred and beware of insulting your
neighbor; be not revengeful but protect your rights
and those of others. Love justice and bear pain and
misfortune courageously.
6. Observe carefully and reflect in order to get at
the truth. Deceive not yourself or others and be­
ware of lying, for lies destroy the heart, the soul, and
the character. Suppress passions and radiate love and
peace.
7. Consider that animals also have a right to your
sympathy and do not harm or tease them.
8. Think that all good is the result of work; he who
enjoys without working is stealing bread from the
mouth of the worker.
9. Call no man a patriot who hates or has contempt
for other nations, or who wishes and approves wars.
War is the remains of barbarism.
10. Love your country and your nation but be co­
workers in the high task that shall make all men to live
together like brothers in peace and happiness.—The
Journal of the National Education Association.
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