402 LESSONS FROM NATURE. [CHAP. XIII. 



and care the tendencies and probable consequences of their 

 utterances, however convinced they may be that such utter 

 ances are true. 



But let us look a little closer at some modern teaching 

 likely to affect conduct. Dr. Levvins tells* us: 



Some pro- J 



positions Earth is Paradise if the healthy operation of every 



with ethical J r J 



applications, anatomical structure could be preserved. . . . All 

 that is fabled by poets, saints, martyrs, founders of sects and 

 systems, under the term Saturnian, or Golden Age, Kingdom 

 of Heaven, Paradise, &c , is comprehended in that supreme 

 bien etre which results from the equilibrium of the bodily 

 functions.&quot; Harmonizing with such declarations and with 

 that exaggerated estimate of brute existence now so popular, 

 is the teaching of Professor Ed. V. Hartmann. This ex 

 positor of science, impregnated with antichristian philosophy, 

 teaches t as follows: &quot;It is important to make beast life 

 better known to youth as being the truest source of pure 

 nature, wherein they may learn to understand their true 

 ~being in its simplest form, and in it rest and refresh them 

 selves after the artificiality and deformity of our social con 

 dition.&quot; Again he tells \ us : &quot; The individuals of the lower 

 and poorer classes and rough savages, are happier than the 

 instructed and well-to-do classes.&quot; And he goes on to affirm 

 that similarly brutes are happier than men ; ending with the 

 remarkable sentence : &quot; Let us only think how agreeably an 

 ox or a Tiog lives, almost as if he had learned to do so from 

 Aristotle.&quot; Here we have an actual modern resurrection of 

 that old Pagan frame of mind satirized by Dr. Newman in 

 the soliloquy of Jucundus : 



&quot; Enjoyment s the great rule : ask yourself, have I made 

 the most of things ? . . . I ve often thought the hog is the 

 only really wise animal. We should be happier if we were 

 all hogs. Hogs keep the end of life steadily in view.&quot; 



* Life and Mind, by Kobert Lewins, M.D. 

 t Philosophic des Unbewussten, p. 359. 

 J Op. cit. p. 712. 

 Callista, pp. 48, 49. 



