Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1914 — Morals and Method. [ARTICLE]

Morals and Method.

This difference between the scienafter all the difference also tween the original and the commonplace; the distinction between morals and sinfulness. “You can teach a man logic,’* said a philosopher once, “but you can’t make him think.” Also you can obviously teach a man the science of medicine without making of him a physician; a healer. If theology and society correlated each other there would he fewer tears for the backslider and the certain knowledge that “all sin is vain” has armed but precious few of us against temptation. It Is easier to give counsels of perfection for the benefit of our friends than it is for us to achieve even a respectable mediocrity In matterk of our own conduct; and the world, particularly the world of America, would avoid many disappointments if it commenced with the admission that human nature is very frail and most fortunate if it even approximates the ideals of democracy. “Why can we not,” said a cheerful cynic as he watohed some acrobats performing, “why can we not teach and acquire morals as these people acquire their skill. ’ And here and there some one of us does. But for the rest there is the lucky chance that we may escape being as bad as sometimes we have felt like being and the healthful humility of remembering that even our father Adam surrendered much that was his for the thing that was denled -