Editorial October 2, 1943 Issue

Outlaw Evil's Claim to Repetition

Paul Stark Seeley

German prisoners taken in the Tunisian campaign are reported by a correspondent of a well-known newspaper to have said: "We lost the last war. We may lose this one. But the next one we will win." Newspapers in Tokyo are calling this the Hundred Years War.

All of which should impress upon us that the one enemy of the human family is the tenacious mortal mind willfully determined, through this war or through another, to take for itself the government of man—the inalienable prerogative of the positive Mind that is God.

To perpetuate and establish itself, the carnal mind would, if unresisted by the deific Mind, persistently and insistently repeat its tactics, cling to its strategy. One group of its mortal personalities it would motivate with greed for power, jealousy, hate, and an insane desire for personal and political control of mankind. Another group, somewhat less open to such negative forces, it would lull with apathy and credulity, so subjecting them to its domination, and stifling, if it could, their honest intent to let the government of God become increasingly evident among men. With such machinations would evil repeat from decade to decade, from generation to generation, from century to century, its futile attempts to usurp through fratricidal strife the sovereignty of the Principle that is the Life, Mind, and sole governor of men— their God.

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