Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — Most Inhuman Belief. [ARTICLE]

Most Inhuman Belief.

There may be well-intentioned people who say that virtue always lead* to success und vice to misery. But UL is an obvious and monstrous falsehood In a world where we profit by the good! deeds of our parents and where mllJ lions are suffering unutterable tortureut because of the deeds of foreign poten4 tates. That those who suffer mush ijave been wicked, and that those whoj triumph must have been virtuous. one of the raqst inhuman beliefs hi bhH tory. As to the doctrine that the ro4 virtue is to be found in a dealt conscience or high satisfaction —that} is an even more violent The people who suffer most from theiri conscience are obviously the sensitive! and high-minded, while self-approtMM tion comes most easily to the cow* placent and fortune-favored Jack H<wM ners. The doctrine that the reward} of moral life Is a feeling of satiafaot tion or happiness is not only contrary* to moral experience, but is Intellectually sterile. —The New Republic. '