| Mystery envelops the origin of life on earth. | | | | He must adjust himself to the social environment |
| Science has done much to unravel the mysteries | | | | and derive benefit from its benign aspects. |
| of nature, but the riddle of life still remains | | | | Sometimes the social environment is not healthy, |
| unsolved. No answer has been given so the | | | | and therefore, inimical to his growth and |
| question, how did life come into this once lifeless | | | | development. In such cases he has got to fight |
| earth? But if the origin of life is shrouded in | | | | with that society, its prejudices and harmful rites |
| darkness, not so is its character. Its essential | | | | and customs. If he is strong, he triumphs, |
| feature is struggle. If there is any common | | | | dragging the society tied to his triumphal chariot. |
| element among all forms of life, high and low, it is | | | | But if he is week, he succumbs and is crushed by |
| this continuous struggle. If there is any common | | | | the social environment. How bitter can this |
| element among all forms of life, high and low, it is | | | | struggle be will be evident from the life history of |
| this continuous struggle. Pain and suffering born of | | | | any great social reformer. |
| this struggle permeate life, and rightly has Francis | | | | If man is a social being, he has a political |
| Thomson said, | | | | existence. He lives in a state and is either a citizen |
| We are born in other's pain, | | | | or a subject. He struggles for political status, |
| And perish in our own. | | | | power and privileges. Those who are independent |
| The cause has alighted not only on man but on | | | | and those who are dependent, fight alike, only in |
| the entire animate and inanimate creation. The | | | | different ways and perhaps with different |
| slender struggles with thousand impediments on | | | | weapons, but fight there is. In the modern world, |
| its forward course and the planets roll round | | | | there is going on a continuous warfare against |
| fighting with innumerable attractions. The same | | | | autocratic powers, against vested interests, |
| cruel struggle goes on in the animal world, and so | | | | against the innate selfishness and avarice of the |
| fierce it is there that sometimes a whole species | | | | rich and the powerful. The cry for socialism is |
| becomes, extinct. The survival of the fittest is | | | | rending the air. |
| the law of nature, so struggle goes on not only | | | | But the present day man has come to realize |
| on this earth, but in the sky above and in the | | | | that political power alone will not bring him |
| ocean below. | | | | comfort. So he fights for economic well being. |
| In the life of man is seen the same struggle from | | | | This economic problem has, of late begun to |
| the cradle to the grave, the fetus in the mother's | | | | usurp men's whole attention. The struggle is |
| womb grows by struggling with adverse | | | | keenest in this field. Here ruthless competition is |
| conditions. The cry of the newborn baby | | | | driving the poor and the weak to the wall. But the |
| announces the coming fight of life. The child's | | | | struggle of human life is not confined to the |
| fretting, crying, crawling and stumbling are but | | | | sphere of social, political and economic problems, it |
| maneuvers in a long campaign. When it grows into | | | | is also seen in man's search for truth and religion. |
| a man, there begins another phase of its fight. | | | | Here the dictum, "no pain, no gain," is awfully true. |
| Man has diverse enemies to struggle with. First | | | | So all through life, in the high and the low spheres, |
| begins his lifelong struggle with the forces of | | | | there is present this struggle. The struggle arises |
| nature. As he grows up, there comes his struggle | | | | in man from his desire to improve his condition. |
| with himself with his own passions and prejudices. | | | | There is in him an element of abiding discontent |
| These are sometimes the most dangerous | | | | which is never satisfied and which drives him from |
| enemies of man and the most difficult of all kinds | | | | sphere to sphere. His greatness as well as his |
| of knowledge, so self conquest is the most | | | | misery are alike born of this discontent. So long |
| arduous of all conquests. We may conquer the | | | | as this will remain in man, the essence of life will |
| whole and yet remain a slave to ourselves, to | | | | be struggle. As the whole creation is trying to |
| just, greed, avarice, anger and jealously. The first | | | | realize itself, this struggle is present in all the |
| and the foremost duty of a man, therefore, is to | | | | spheres and permeates life from the highest to |
| fight and conquer these internal foes. | | | | the lowest. Truly has Emerson said, |
| But man is also a social being, living in a society | | | | Striving to be man, the worm |
| and drawing nourishment from it. To live | | | | Mounts through all the spires of form. |
| peacefully in a society requires conscious effort. | | | | Man must know to swim along the nature. |