THE TORCH OF BEASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, FEBRUARY 8, 1900.
True, but just as in Biology the to the d o m i n a n t r » ii ..
results are not precise, yet they are Imperator A m oL ci’v i l r L l o
certain, and so eobj'ect lo prevL on pies, such 'a s are now a b ^ f o
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■‘Il « herPeoples concerned. With- the maklngof them all individual-
IMe
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and provision.
Biology cannot trol this earth the r illv f it to a.
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ntganism, and con-
The Republic therefore rests sol-
foretell your death precisely to an »¡ve, and those only who under th i? peoplT affeeted '’" ’!!''! 'Vh'Vh CVery ’dIji "P0" ll"‘ ord,'r of all organic
pe-’ple affected will have a part, evolution. Indeed the solar system
hour, but it cau foretell your death law can survive in t l,e
are those who make for .7 ® ' ’ | ?
' he. ' neVI,aW‘‘’ 8cien,ific and
with its ba.... .. of centripetal
and things which, if you do not
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co-operative benefit
benefit of
of their '-•"luiiunni
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d s,
centrifugal fo.ces in the orbits
avoid, will certa.nly make your -non,
n,on, co-operative
the lower animals and - in social
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of the planets, may be said to he
death a dead certainty by a given nation
and of all peoples. That is agery worked out its do,oh result»
the ideal of those c e n tra liz in g and
time. Its knowledge is not pre­ among modern goverments the on­
roughly and brutally, but as soon repelling.those intergrative and diff­
cise, but it is certain in its ly one that is “naturally selected”
as mankind became conscious, so­ erent ia tiv e , tendencies which hold in
facts, laws, conditions and re­ and which can survive aspartofour
cial and intelligent, and even half in harmonious action apolitically
sults, and so it is reliably accurate. civilized progress is the R epublic .
civilized, no government hut a Re­ Federated Union—sustaining »and
In a similar way this is true in So­
As Pai ne, Jefferson and W ashing­ public— that is, a public manage­ protecting its general functions and
ciology. Its general laws and pro- ton said, the “ Republican Model”
ment of the general affairs of the its individual members. Such is the
cesseses, and concomitant and final must survive, and not only in form
people for them and by their agents, natural balance which is at once the
results are discovered. Those civil­
can long remain possible. Natural stay of starry systems,of the organ­
ized peoples who from choice or
selection becomes intelligent and ic world, and of the peace and pro­
negligence allow themselves to be
moral selection, which is then only gress of States and of Nations.
borne on by the drifts or winds of
the fittest, because the best selec­
their own greeds, passions and fan­
R epublics A lways in D anger .
tion, and that by the fundamental
cies, without regard to the healthy
1 he great danger to Republics is
law of Evolution and Sociology is
social and scientific relations toanc
the inevitable. It will not be safe that the balance of their integra­
with the world they are really in,
to pretend to forget this law, nor to tive and differentiative forces or
and its other peoples, are simply
stand up against it, nor to try to tendencies will not be preserved.
sailors going it blind, or would-be
beat it out of its reality by selfish If this can be done the Republic
pirates following what will prove a
subterfuges and idle prevarications. becomes practically immortal, and
mirage of selfishness. If the family
is, and will ever be the permanent,
of nations and the peoples on this
and the gieatest blessing of man­
planet are to end in making it any­
kind. For it is the sure guarantee
thing but a Golgotha, or a human
of liberty, independence, industry,
slave-pen, we must begin to recog­
safety of life and property, general
nize these natural laws of historical
welfare, intelligence, and reasonable
and social balance, co-operation and
sociability, equality, fraternity, and
evolution. The idea that we can go
general progress under human
it blind in the pursuits of averic-
ious domination and not end in
which is the “Hpaven” on this earth.
disastrous catastrophe is unscien
These beneficent results cannot pos­
tific—in a word, a childish illusion.
sibly be permanently achieved by
No empire has ended otherwise
any other form of government.
than in slavery, followed by “earth­
“The Republican Model,” as W ash­
ington phrased it, must therefore
quakes” of revolution—and by the
remain as the political ideal for all
laws of evolution, every empire in­
time, to he ever better realized by
evitably leads to those results and
the successive stages of intelligent
ends there.
co-operative evolution.
There is no mystery nor great ab­
But in Sociology and Politics, as
struseness about this science, as in
everywhere else, the most precious
the case of the higher mathematics.
things are the most difficult to keep
Sociology is largely a descriptive
—they are always liable to be lost
science. Any one who patiently
or stolen. So is it with a Republic;
looks at the facts with common
and when lost or stolen it seems
sense and common intelligence, can
ilmost impossible to be recovered.
not fail to catch on to the laws and
The laws of this science may not be
Liberty like milk and quicksilver
follow the way out. Let us try.
as precise to the moment as the
when once spilt seems gone for ever.
The general law underlying the
laws of the solar system,, but they
Hence every Republican should
domain of all living things—that is,
are just as certain, and in the long
live on the defensive outlook , and
in Biology and Sociology, is the
run as terrible if they are broken.
never forget the words of Jefferson:
simple law of assimilation, and
Nor is there any doubt about them.
“ Eternal vigilance is the price of
consequent integration and im­
They were adumbrated b y th e“ laws
Liberty,” and the still nobler words
provement of the whole by the dif­
r>f God” of the old dispensation of T
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of
Paine:
“Where
Liberty
theology. Ever since the scientific' ideal8>towards
an ever
better is s not,
ta te -
ferentiation or individuation of its
there
is
my
country;”
th
at
is,
his
to ’•
new of mankind has come to the W,‘’ph
parts into organs ever better per­
realize it there. For as long as
forming functions for the benefit of
ront, the Sociologists have been in
there is a powerful despotism on
the whole organism, which is at
lympathy if not in name, Repub-
earth no Republic is safe. Thus it
once the resultant of, and the guar­
icane; Herder, Condorcet, and the
dian of them. To Herbert Spencer
American and French Revolution- was that Paine, as the Father of
belongs the honor of best stating
sts, then the Natural Scientists, Republics and of Republicanism,
proclaimed its ultimate in the Fed­
and illustrating the law ’ of growth
"omte and the Positivists, and last-
eration of Republics, as the Grand
y, the modern Evolutionists. As
>rof. Louis G. Janes, of Cambridge,
lass., has well pointed out, “ Dar­
rin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel,
'iske, Cope, Powell, and all of the
lasters of evolutionary science in
.8 higher evolutionary aspects”
ave stood for this higher selection
hich goes for the Republic.
<*7“ n°.T ° n m,,8t mOre and ” ° re ! The language of Paine and Jefler-
denve the.r just powers from the L>n Was indeed of their day, and so
consen o t e governed , because , largely metaphysical; but it is only
as the resultants of the co-operation necessary to remember that their
of the varted parts and organs,that <.righte« WPre the c a t i o n , and
1», indi \ m t At,», of the social body, counterparts of social duties, and
they can act only for its general that their “equality” was not one
and common b e n e fit,- that is, for 0, n ature, but of political rights and
t e ene t o a .
| necessities. “ Equal as to their
T hat is as Lincoln put it: “Gov- rights,” as Paine well puts it in the
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