The Friends of Brownson
June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 14 one's loyalty to a spiritual creed is less likely to be home without children...
...As a writer knocks we get in life...
...and that the material reprinted is more imminent by familiarizing the youth of the counto be selected with a view to its timeliness and intel- try with the handling of arms...
...Then came a second flood, but this time of broadA NYTHING which Dr...
...and though sometimes he all seem to belong to the new-stone period of the old stalked like a grim, destructive harvester among the world, and are, consequently, of no very great age...
...which give them a meaning and incidentally an excellent chance to acquire habits of mental and physical alertWHILE several investigators are adding up the ness, are to be taboo...
...One fancies that no particular juicy details of what are considered the younger gen- paean of thankfulness on the part of normally coneration's wanderings off the path of righteousness, it stituted boys and young men will greet a compromise is a pleasure to turn to the following random thoughts, which accords them full permission to hang their equipfound in the dressing-table of a woman who some years ment on a hickory limb but never, in the interests of back was glad to give up the honor of being America's international peace, to venture near the water...
...One years have elapsed since the ice fully disappeared from wishes that those who were unable to attend might the region of the Great Lakes...
...probably of a temporary nature, and little affecting Over and above all this, remains the enigma of the racial character of the district...
...the answer in that tremendous word-faith-which in Nothing is so deplorable about contemporary culturn we teach our children through constant affection tural life as the failure to codify experience...
...The former spread gists, that this race is homogeneous, entering America all over the north, and formed the most specialized from Asia, by what we may call the north-west pas- of all the Amerindian types...
...The unreasonable the varied experiments in living which have been tried things children do to us are exactly like the hard enthusiastically by the American mind...
...Thus, in the present lectual value...
...That would, according to presfoe of all dilettanteism...
...Then, doubtless, they walked-and, tary pages of counsel, of profound scholarship and having regard to the rigors of the climate and food effective thinking, as worthy of disinterment as are difficulties, they probably came in small bands...
...which has never welcomed the love of the Master...
...intellectual things it produced, he was interested in Relying on this evidence, he concludes that man did nothing more deeply than in its aptitude to flower into not cross over from the old to the new world until a sturdy cultural harvest...
...The latter, broadsage, in the Alaskan region...
...June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 14 one's loyalty to a spiritual creed is less likely to be home without children in it, is, to me, like a home mere routine inheritance than was formerly the case...
...Hrdlicka points out that the relics in same breath shows that the level was quite highnorth-eastern Asia, whether skeletal or of implements, perhaps not unlike that of Carthage in its prime...
...This district was, no doubt, one This theory is based upon a supposed, but much dis- of intensive cultivation-a form of culture belonging puted, representation of an elephant's head on the to a higher civilization than that of nomads or wild Copan Maya stela...
...Quali- course, be tentative, but Professor Coleman, F.R.S., fied speakers-in fact, they were among the best ob- a great authority on the glacial period, has recently tainable-stressed the significance, the patriotism, and given it as his opinion that about twenty thousand the genius of the famous editor and pamphleteer...
...To this habit To do one's best for these little ones is therefore really Brownson, however attentively he studied the Euroto gain a foretaste of immortality...
...The Lost Atlantis theory great races of Central America came from Cambodia...
...In a word, the from non-Catholic sources appealed to us as helpful, drudgery of "squads right" and "right front into line," sincerely moral, and illuminating...
...that ing out the pacifist argument to its logical conclusion it expects to deal preeminently with topics of interest is typical of the groups which believe that war is made to all the churches...
...The dinner recently tendered on the erosion at Niagara and at the Falls of Saint by this youthful organization was first of all a pledge Anthony-both, like all important waterfalls, postto the memory of Brownson, and an expression of glacial phenomena...
...Some, however, the South Sea Islands, is highly probable...
...That there may have headed, and of all Amerindians most resembling the been, from time to time, landings made on the western north-eastern Asiatic Mongol, found its path stopped, shores of the continent by Chinese, or denizens of most of them remaining in Alaska...
...headed, and were the progenitors of the Algonquins, Iroquois, Sioux, and Shoshone groups, which spread THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA as far as Tierra del Fuego...
...but that the two can be spoken of in the America...
...It is a docu- new country, he did so under conditions not greatly ment which touches the heart and reveals the funda- differing from those of today...
...It is a task that requires patience...
...ance, in Eucharistic Chicago, of a pleasant circle of Calculations regarding this epoch are largely based "Friends of Brownson...
...The fact that The Commonweal is case, the Reverend Sidney L. Gulick, secretary of the among the journals from which the Digest garners its Commission on International Justice and Good Will, material suggests once more the value of effective is at some pains to make it plain that the committee's Catholic journalism-a value which is really inestim- objection to military training does not extend to the able when one remembers that outside good will is old-fashioned exercises upon the drill-ground, but to often earned quite as much by justness of temper and "the highly technical and systematic training, includcalmness of mind as by cogency of argument...
...the great and cruel civilizations of the central regions All this we may admit without surrendering to the -what caused the great development there, and preutterly unproved theory that the civilization of the vented it in other parts...
...It is hard to understand why he probably lacked style...
...Yes, the precocious children of illuminati appear before the utmost patience...
...as tell you a lie or steal from you-just as it is difficult a man he probably was often furious where he should and baffling to see a dear friend die while an imbecile have been urbane...
...Though his criticism was either quite late in Paleolithic days, or in the concerned with subjects now largely out of mode, it early Neolithic age-probably from ten to fifteen itself had that precious quality of virility which is the thousand years ago...
...And that is why a peans, would have been ruggedly opposed...
...Even while men who normally gave little thought to traditional Christianity are driven, by more or less THE protest issued by the administration committee pragmatic reasons, to affirm the usefulness of religious of the Federal Council of Churches regarding milifaith, the controversy about tenets of belief grows tary training in high schools and colleges, popularly steadily more strenuous...
...When for them...
...We need to feel the vast re- the world as connoisseurs of cosmopolitan fuzz at the sponsibility of the job, and realize that we shall go tender age of twelve, there is little hope that what on living in our children, almost in the same way as we is honest and indigenous in the national tradition shall live eternally in the spirit of Christ's charity...
...Not, of course, on horseback-for the in the wilderness" would not be listened to in its own horse was not known until white men brought it to generation...
...The Digest, which need not be denied the youth of high school and college is...
...If dates are right, it was not by any There follow two questions...
...But that does not answer the question he has all serious ethnologists concurring with him as to where the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas got their in his first point...
...they have to do certain things-accept certain eventu- Of him it may be said-a rare tribute-that he was alities...
...Finally, so far as any considerable immigrations (Smithsonian) on the Amerindian race, he stresses his were concerned, came the invasions which produced belief, in common with the great majority of ethnolo- the Eskimo and the Athapascan...
...Both are rich in the force, a personality and a program...
...or, how old is man in same era...
...the strong memorials of earlier American art and Hrdlicka thinks that the first to arrive were longhandiwork...
...If that be so, we may be led to read at least the Valedictory appended to suppose that when man first began to penetrate this the last issue of Brownson's Quarterly...
...mental tenderness of the man, even as it is an expres- That brings us to the second question-how did sion of sad conviction that the voice of "one crying man come...
...civilization...
...best feminine golfer for the sake of a relatively large amount of original investigation into the subject of THE FRIENDS OF BROWNSON childhood...
...Some day, perhaps, they will live again...
...But buried in his heavy books are salu- this continent...
...These calculations must, of the hope that the idea may take root elsewhere...
...We judge from the initial known as the R. O. T. C. movement, is not a very number of the Religious Press Digest that its plan convincing document...
...will become a natural part of education...
...Ales Hrdlicka has to say headed people, which worked its way down the northabout the ethnology of this continent is always west coast as far as Peru, and is known as the Toltec worthy of careful attention...
...ent views, be long after the termination of the last Therefore, it is encouraging to note the appear- glacial epoch...
...as a philosopher he may your child, for whom you work hour after hour, will have sacrificed eclectic cogency to intuitive depth...
...is wholly unproved...
...A certain hesitation in followstresses the largest possible amount of eclecticism...
...In his recent report type...
...There moved down the west coast to Mexico, forming the may even have been small settlements made by these, Hupa, and also to Arizona, constituting the Apache...
...First, when did these means as advanced as European civilization of the immigrations take place...
...The following are some of the conclusions, set down here without further comment: "Bring- N the American tradition of the Catholic layman, ing up my children is, to me, symbolical in a very real Orestes Brownson remains an individual and a way of the religion of Christ...
...We ing combat drill, such as is provided in units of the might add that a great deal of the comment reprinted Reserve Officers Training Corps...
...He knew X48 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 the strength of this soil...
...No man was paradoxical rewards of affection, as for instance, ever more thoroughly an American, coming as he did `Blessed are they who suffer.' The more love one de- from the stock which may be termed the human root votes to either, the more love also does one receive- of our culture, and living out in an energetic fashion though sometimes in disguise...
...Neither can we...
...But as we grow older we find satisfied with nothing less than sincerity...
...But he did actually write, think, goes on living...
...Hrdlicka may feel sure that seed-eaters...
...issued in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ought to prove a age, but the very interesting and intricate manoeuvres valuable addition to American religious journalism...
...Children simply can't understand why and live on a high level and with exceptional vigor...
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