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It’s A Ceaseless Battle
It is (well to remember that nothing improves unless somebody makes it his business to do the improving, and that we have to fight a ceaseless battle with nature to stay where we are.
Nature is always ready to take over at any time or place. Let a ten-mile stretch of concrete pavement go unused and untended for a year and weeds will sprout in tiny crevices, water will get under the concrete, and when the ice comes it will crack.
Anyone who has planted a garden ten feet square knows that to bring the simplest vegetables to maturity requires toil. Nature is lavish with her gifts of rain and sunshine but she doesn’t care what prospers—weeds or bugs—so long as there is activity.
It is all right to offer pray era of gratitude to nature, but it is the endless generations of our human forebears, reaching back through the centuries of time, who brought about the comfortable existence that is possible today.
It is also men of energy, will, and vision who keep us from backsliding. Without their firm spirit this planet .would soon be in a sorry mess. Laziness and stupidity can inflict more destruction than war.
-W- . Ethnocentrism
A few years ago, H. Allen Smith stumbed upon a word that was new to him—ethnocentrism.
“If,” he wrote in his book, Larks in the Popcorn, “there is any word in any language which, describes what is wrong with the world, this is it. Because of ethnocentrism I have abandoned all planning for a placid future.”
The new Random House dictionary defines ethnocentrism as follows: “The belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own group and culture accompanied by a feeling of contempt for other
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