The Gavelyte, December 1909

1,:-: ------·---- the only pure or unmix~d one we ever experience; because the whole _life physical and mental develops together; and with the dying of the first sensation other sensations are aroused anrl primitive processes of other forms of consciousness are blended. No one can estimate the full and far– reaching influence of the first sensation on the after life. It is the embryo of all after activity, development, and possibility. The nature of the first sensation de-pends npon heredity, nourishment, and environment. Our sensations are organic or those occasioned by the vital organs of our own bodies; muscular or those occasioned by the movements of the muscles; and special or those coming through the media of the skin as touch; the naga) organ as odor; the ear as sound; the upper digestive :,;ystem as taste; and the eye as color, or light and shadow. In the next article, we shall treat of sensations in particular. Current Events . . The execution of two American citizens while serving in a revolutionary army in Nicaragua calls attention to the c;tate of affairs in Central and South America generally. The Monroe Doctrine was stated at a time when the United Statef> was a small and untried nation, in the opinion of Eu– ropeans as not worthy to be compared with England and France. To-da¥ when we have bP-come one of the great world powers, it is difficult to conceive how small we were ninety years ago. The Monroe Doctrine was ridiculed then and would have been utterly disregarded had it not been that England took our side. Thus Mexico and South America achieved and maintained their independence and entered upon a series of internal revoiutions which lasted for eighty years. With these revolutions were mingled as.sassinations, confiscations, and burnings in interminable confusion. If ever a people lived in the midst of alcirm , it was then. Only lately have they emerged into orderly governm8nt. Central America is now pas ing through a corresponding stage, and it iR a pity that thPy could not have finished it up while the other states were at it. The five republics are really five arbitrary divisions of one nation, whose interests and animosities overlap. In fact it is a common occurrence for lhe government of one republic to aid the insurgents of another, be– c·au~e thPy belong to thP same genPral political part.y. PrPsidents Zelaya's