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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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