Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-07-19
issued: 1922-09-16
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note: WESTERN CLARION A Journal of CURRENT EVENTS Official Organ of THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA HISTORY ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHY No. 875. EIGHTEENTH YEAR Twice a Month VANCOUVER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922. FIVE CENTS The Genius THERE is an idea, more evenly distributed than wealth, that there must arise a great man to arouse society into intelligent—or at least comprehensive—action: that society droops, like a lily in the sun, for lack of a Moses (or shall we say a Genghis?) to transform its petrified apathy into fruitful action; that indeed our case is hopeless, until the days of the conqueror shall be fulfilled. It is an idea quite plausible, but who shall deem it probable? It is not new, and it is eminently satisfying to our vanity—which it flatters, in its implication of values.—and to our steadfast veneration for deep-rooted custom and conservatism. History gives little "sanction to such hope. Yet it is no argument that what has not been, may not be. Far from it. and none may guage the tumultuous detail of the future. There is an ever gathering complex of social circumstance which, in interaction with all that is, contrives a steadily growing intricacy of social relation. The progress of technique, and with it the capacity for logical reason, presents a continually changing facade of experience, on which are sculptured out and intermingled with the relics of former experience the new forces of the dominating present. The process of thought is a process of growth, and like all growth it is mul-' tiple and multiform, bringing to being as determining circumstance shall decree, the blossoming ideation of progress. And it may be, in this limitless wealth of action and reaction, that as social climax approaches and "outworn creeds decay," the mental process may leap forward suddenly to new and higher vantages. A species of mental mutation (after the fashion of De Vries). The advent of mind is a new factor in the cycle of development. It is a constantly increasing power in the…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318914
language: English
lat: 49.2611110
long: -123.1138890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text