THE MISSING LINK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3123, 21 July 1892, Page 2

THE MISSING LINK.

TO THE KDITOR. Sir, —In the human frame the heart is the organ of moral force, the lungs tho organ of physicial force, and the brain the organ of soma! force. All the unit? nr particles which collectively form the tissue or membranes of the body are subjects of these three great elements of their existence. If the heart is enacting monopoly, or opposition, or competition towards the brain or the lungs, the whole system hecomes immediately and continuously deranged, and then moralism, organism, or socialism, and all other seisins, fail to restore health. With a large and good heart an injured lung or a wonk brain can be made to survive, but a weak or bad heart will wreck a healthy lung or brain ; therefore the heart or moral organ of force is constituted by Divine Providence to be the organ of will, of liffl, and death. But, nevertheless, the heart alone cannot carry out tho functions of the body without co-operating with it, and the co-operation of the lungs and the brain, neither can heart and lungs act in opposition to, or competition with the brain without running amuck in the end and all acts of coercion hasten that result, and transpose or shuffle the trinity of heart, lungs and brain as you will so it is, and will be with them, or either of them, so long as monopoly, opposition, or competition usurps tho place of co-oper.uion and attempts to rule itself, or its fellows, morally, phisically, or socially, each in the | long run fail, and so it is, as it has been, and ever will be Ake Ake, failure. The only element which has co-operated with mankind silica his fall, to preserve the race and inhabitability of the world is death, which limits the injurious affects upon his generation of man himself. This is proved by the couutless nnmbers of human beings, civilize, uncivilized, and savage, who destroy each other, or fall by their own hand daily, tut whom if they did not die, would make the earth a shocking and intolerable den of misery. In China we 3ee physical force and degraded social force enacting their part — with moral force abandoned—and with what results? Of all nations upon earth, the most loathsome and dreadful. In Russia we see moral and physical force enacting their part without regard to social force —and the result is, she is regarded with dread by kindred civilised nations, as the most tyrannical and oppressive, and her subjects the most miserable. In Germany, we see physical force and moral force competing with each other for pre-eminence, only acting in unison to keep social force under, with unhappy results to herself. In France, we see social force and physical force endeavouring to solve the problem, careless of moral force, with very doubtful results to herself, and a source of uneasiness and alarm to surrounding nations, and the civilised world. In America, we see social force supreme, with physical force indifferent towards moral force—a thermal spring of human vitality and wonderful capacity—but not safe nor contented. In England, we see moral, physical and social force, each recognised as an important force necessary to the material State, but divided or disconnected, each throwing the blame upon the others for existing evils, and each trying to gain the ascendancy over the other, unable or unwillint; to grasp the link of co-operation, which alone can join them together to enable them to grapple the evils which are increasing around them and in the world outside of them. Yet, of all countries England is by far the best governed, and her subjects have more moral, physical and social freedom than any other nation in the world, and her wealth and power are relatively expansive. But tliis is not due to her moral, physical or social elements individually, but to the fact that the head of the nation co-operates impartially and collectively with all three as a whole. Hud England an Eve, a Jesabel, or a Cleopatra, an Ahab, a Herod or a C®sar as her heal, with her moral, physical and social elements at feud, where would be her wealth and power ; or if she had no head would she survive under the babel of parliamentary party government? To Victoria, the moral queen of virtue, who with heart and hand, fears God and maintains her people's will. To the moral, physical, and social strength of our Queen, and llP.r co-operatirn wit h her Hubjeots, is dun tlio success of her reign ; and so during the great social upheaval which is going on throughout the length and breadth of the world, let England and England's people join in the prayer of their National Anthem—" God Save Our Queen." The world has to pass through an evolutionary period which apparently overtakes her at least once in a thousand years, and upon the margin of one of which we now stand, and whose coming events are casting their shadows before. For all sakes, therefore, let us acknowledge the equal necessity of moral, physical, and social strength as individuals and as a nation, acting in cooperation with each other, and denounce opposition, monopoly, or competition by either part or party of these olements as high treason, and thereforo criminal. Conservitism, liberalism and radicalism are the political names of these; selfishness is their blot, and they are all amenable for selfishness, which is not confined to oitlier one or other (ns also the love of power). Thi3 is proved by one working man in socialistic America owning £25,000,000 of wealth where there are a million of human beings in actual want. To cripple energy or enterprise, or to sympathise with indolence or waste will only intensify the evils of want. The common bee, the wasp and the humble bee represent the three grades of human bees—the capitalist, the middleman and the working man. [f the capitalist and the working man only knew their owu and each other's nature better, and had a fuller knowledge of Providence than they apparently have at present, the one would nut crowd himself out of his own home and existence by his accumulations of labour, and tho other would recognise his own peculiar advantages and [ be more contented than he is, and each | would value the other (as co-operator* i should) as being indisper.siblo to their I common good.—l am, &c., Ataiuu.