Mystic masonry, or, The symbols of freemasonry and the greater ...

46 Mystic Masonry.
With regard to the Science of Man, and all that
concerns his origin, nature and destiny, individually
or collectively, neither science nor religion has
taught — us anything. Science has given us the
slogan "the survival of the fittest,"—a mere scientific
phrasing of the motto of the Robber Barons,
that "he may seize v^^ho hath the power, and he
may hold who can." In the industries of life the
result may be reduced to one word, Competition.
In manufacture, in trade, in all professions—even
the Clerical profession—in schools, everywhere.
Competition^ Strife, and "the survival of the fittest."
"And this to fill us with regard for man;
With apprehension of his passing worth.
Desire to work his proper nature out.
And ascertain his rank and tinal place."
So far our boasted civilization is, on a gigantic scale,
a Car of Jagannatha, and it crushes heads and hearts
as relentlessly as the wooden idol of our heathen
brothers, only, American-like, we do the killing by
wholesale.
Are not nearly the whole of the energies and
activities of life directed to and expended upon the
physical plane alone? And has not the struggle for
existence increased with the great majority, in spite