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“ TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.”— Lucre this.
rH p R s iZ tY T ’i ï N ï . n . r 37,
Love S h a ll C onquer.
BY G USTAV S P IL L E R .
ations of m an .
T h e m eaning
e . m .
301 (lo o t.)
2.
o f' m ankind were practically brothers, istent, and w ithout regard of their
th e w ord w as soon e x te n d e d in a independent of God or Pope ; for progress and developm ent through
g »od sense to sig n ify g en tle, h u m a n e they were children of the same time.
or p hilanthropic conduct, cu ltu re or
‘EARS are coming, years are going, n janj1Prs • an(j thence, also, it came
Creeds m ay change or pass aw ay, to w a n liberal culture, education
but the
<,
i> growing
and
d breeding. All of these
j earth and race, with the same fac-
If we tu rn to the progress of h u
ulties and needs, hound togetherby
m anity and its growth in time—
a common interest, inheritors of the
th at is, its C ontinuity (from L atin
sam e past, and trem bling or hoping
contino-are, to join in, or connect)
Selfish claims will soon no longer
'vords aud " " " " ' g ' are common in before the sam e future. I t became — a still more wonderful bond of
Raise th e ir h arsh d isco rd an t sounds. 1 classical L atin, and have been in- clearer th a t no individual could ex unity is disclosed. The Present is
For th e law of love shall conquer.
h erite d by o u r m o d ern lan g u ag es. ist or had ever existed but as the
ever the child of the P ast and the
B u rsting h a tre d ’s narrow bounds.
But the next step in the history rPSU,t of a «»ciety of some kind. m other of the F uture. In d iv id u als,
Soon p e rsisten t, brave devotion
of this word is singular and im port Thence came the feeling of the tribes, peoples, races, nations, em
To th e good of all m an k in d ,
an t. It took place after the so- brotherhood and of the rights of pires, civilizations, religions, have
Shall lx* deem ed th e chief em otion
called classical period of the Latin man, and the consequent social no explanation, no m eaning, ex
T hat im pels and guides th e m ind.
H u m an love shall spread a glory,
language, and when the Roman changes which still continue. The cept as children of the Past.
The
French
R
evolution
w
’as
a
grand
a
d
F illing men w ith childlike m ir th ;
Em pire was falling before the
laws of social origin and growth
Songs of joy proclaim th e story
m
onition
th
a
t
the
word
H
um
anity
C hristian, a higher, a spiritual bond
transform history into science by
Of a fair, transfigured e a rth .
had
come
to
stand
for
the
deepest
or integration, which intended to
following the course of the ever-ac
Be ye as th e light of m orning,
sentim
ent
and
highest
interests
of
include “ all kindreds, peoples and
cu m u latin g social power through
Like th e beauteous daw n u nfold;
m ankind. Soon it began to appear the ages. N ations, civilizatious and
tongues,”
as
m
embers
of
one
vast
By your ra d ia n t lives adorning
and eternal fam ily, whose F ather as “ the solidarity of nations and religions, have indeed fallen, but
A ll the world w ith hues of gold.
Thaw th e h e a rts th a t now are frozen,
was at once God in Heaven and peoples,” assigning to each and all only hecanse their life has passed
Thaw them w ith th e rays of lo v e ;
Pope on E a rth . Some word was a place, a right and a duty, as part into a higher integration. In war,
Know th e task th a t ye have chosen
needed to express the grand con of the grand organic Social Being governm ent, law, industry litera
S hall be blest all else above.
crete aggregation of the hum an of our p lan et— the evolving M an ture, art, science, low voices reach
race,and the adjective word human kind.
us from a future too remote for us
The New Humanity.
Thus
the
concrete
m
eaning
of
the
ity was the suitable word.
It
io h e a r clearly, hut ever swelling in
word,
introduced
to
describe
the
passed then from its old and merely
volume and strength, rising F ugue
AN m ay be best defined as
mass
of
the
members
of
the
celestial
ab stract m eaning of hum an q u al
like one above the other— all en
the IMMORTAL ANIMAL. By
and
papal
hierarchy,
became
ex-
ities,conduct and education, to mean
forcing the tru th th a t the living are
this fact he differs front all also m ankind at large, the concrete ‘ ’tided to all m ankind as mem bers
more and more hut the advance
the brutes and even the anthropoids.
of
the
grand
terrestia!
com
m
on
whole of the hum an species. It
line of the em pire of the dead. But
H e is im m ortal because as a social
wealth
or
republic,
ideal,
and
yet
thus embodied all men, and all h u
it is in religion as the chief bond
anim al he m ust live, work and en
real,
and
growing
through
the
ages.
man qualities, while acquiring this
or union of H u m an ity , th a t the
joy with others; and each genera
Since the F rench Revolution the main center of unity and continuity
new m eaning it has never lost the
tion in h erits the past, and com m its
old. The new m eaning is the re increase of diplom atic, com m ercial, should be traced. There, m odern
its life-work to future generations.
sult and outcome of the old. It scientific, in d u strial and social in science points out the law of the
A ttention to the new scientific
added a concrete organism to repre- tercourse between all peoples has three phases of states of mir.d with
m eanings of the word H u m an ity ,
sent and realize the hum an and strengthened the sentim ent and which m an k in d have regarded and
is, therefore, absolutely necessary.
hum ane qualities it had expressed conviction th a t all are parts of one sought to explain the world, and
We give accordingly the statem ent
before. T hus H umanity becomes a great earth ly fam ily, whose in te r through which every hum an con
of it which has been put out by the noun.
eats are in a thousand ways inter- ception is liable to ¡»ass, viz;
Society of H u m an ity , in the city of
Since this concrete use of the woven. When an Indian q u arrels
1. The Theological, which as
New Y ork. It will give us the
word was attain ed it has acquired with his squaw on Lake W innipeg sum es th a t the world and objects
foundation of the new life and h o p e ;
greater depth in sentim ent and the price of furs rises in London, about m an, and his feelings w ithin
RELIGION OF HUMANITY.
greater extent in its application. says C arlyle. Every thought and him, are the results of wills of sp ir
There are few who do not kr.ow For exam ple, when (from 1400 to act in some way becomes a wavelet its th a t control them . In the early
th a t the progress of Science and 1600) tlie true form and relations in the tide of h u m an ity . Man is savage and statio n ary races these
M ankind has given a peculiar in- of the earth and of the heaven were th e creature, and yet the creator of wills are supposed to reside in or
terest and depth of m eaning to the revealed by the voyages of He Gam a, 80C’ety » f°r
near the objects them selves, and
“
Man
is
not
m
an,
but
in
Society
word humanity . This interest and Colum bus and M agellan, and the
this stage of belief is called Fetich-
Man
means
Society.”
m eaning will appear both from its discoveries of Copernicus and Gal-
ism; afterw ard these wills are less
— W illiam Sm ith. ened in num ber by the prom inence
etymologv and history.
ileo, m an was compelled to turn to
Like those other fundam ental his fellow m an for comfort and
All this seems to be true in the of the more strik in g objects of n a t
words, Religion, Science and Pos- support as the celestial spheres van- lesser social divisions of fam ily, ure and of the grander gods, aud
itive, this word H u m an ity has be- ished. He found, too, th a t no voy- tribe and nation. Each individual thus results Polytheism . The con
come the common inheritance of ager could do more th an sail round is little more than a knot of social ception of one controlling God, and
m odern E uropean languages from the earth everywhere peopled by forces, powers and influences which of the Infinite as one, gives rise to
the L atin language and civilization. m an. I t was also plain th a t there in their effect are co-extensive with M onotheism as the final stage of
In th a t language the word homo, a had been a singular advance in the the race. Society and H u m an ity theology,
m an, gives us the adjective hum an- history of E uropean civilization by exist by the S olidarity of th eir
2. A tten d an t upon polytheism ,
us, hum an or h u m a n e ; and then which it was carried far beyond the com ponent parts. This word Sol- and especially upon the disinte-
the adverbs h u m an itu s or hum ani- rem ainder of the in h ab itan ts of the id arity (from the L atin solidus, gration of m onotheism , there arises
ter, m eaning hum anly or hum anely e a rth —arid thus the fact of histor- solid) m eant in civil law the part- a second state of m ind, i a which
th a t is, according to, or as be- ical progress was clearly manifest J nership in which “ each is answer- i qualities, faculties and nam es take
comes a m an; and thence we find I hen came G rotius and the rise of able for all, and all for each.” This the place of the wills and god? in
H u m ao itas, i. e., H u m an ity , but international law, with some appeal word is used to give the solid or the philosophy th a t explains the
sim ply as an ab tra ct or adjective at least to the sentim ent of justice j statical view of society, in which its world. T his phase of thought is
noun, m eaning only hum an nature, and general welfare of m ankind, order, and the interdependence of called M etaphysical, and isextrem e-
or the qualities, feelings and inclin- j Then followed the discovery th at the parts, are considered as co-ex-, ly prevalent in our age. I t is the
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