Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-12-03
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From the Technologist.l

The great aim Of life is to succeed
The spirit of emulation in man makes
him shrink from the idea of failure
while the satisfaction anticipated from
success spurs him on to greater efforts
From the fact that nothing is so sne>
,cessful as success. that is, that nothing
is SO taking to the popular mind as to
see one succeed, the bent of human in
ciination is to succeed. even though it be
mo the expense of merit. The prtsump
eion 10 that, if man succeed, he is
meritorious, and. ignoring all attendant
circumstances, this judgment is cor
rect. But take case. A physician Ut
the body is engaged to young lady who
was afterwards intimate with physicl
an of souls. In the exchange OF cour
tesies, the minister has occasion to write
TO the young lady, and the ductor takes
offence nc the letter, and writes an in
sulting reply. which induces the minis
Ger 10 contend for the hand of the lady /,
and, either owing to the week.-mrs. Of
. the fair sex. and th6r respect tor the
cloth, or because be is the better man
he wins. OF course the doctors heart
did not break, for such is not charac-
teristic of the profession. Now. grant
ing that the dominic did succeed. was
he not devoid OF all honor and merit iu
the case? Or, to put the case differ
emily, is not he who decoys another
mans intended, even though he wins.
just as heartless creature as he who
entices another mans wife?
This much is, however, clear, that
merit and success are different things.
There may be success and no merit. as
there may be great deal Of merit with
success; while, on the other hand,
there may lie great merit and M success
at all. The distinction between success
and merit is a thing that ls TOO often
lost sight of in the battle of life, and
especially 80 in reference to the young
and inexperienced. The grounds Of
success may be nothing but the basest
of means, accompanied with a good
amount of tact, or. perhaps, the merest
accident, while the grounds of merit
must be in themselves valuable, as. for
example, when one man, by roguery,
succeeds in business, and an honest
dealer fails.
For all practical purposes. men may
be~classed under three heads. First,
the aimless, which constitutes that
great crowd Of beings which il content
TO live On what they can get from day
90 day, or what fortune or good luck
may send them. Ii 10 made up of both
rich and poor. high and low. They are
creatures good, and creatures bad,
which. like the knots and the bugs. live
out their days by doing certain guam
1kity OF knawing and humming. and
then die, and the world never knows
that fheot have lived. These people
succeed in only one thing. that is, in
reaching the end of their days. and, az
IL is the only thing undertaken by
them, they deserve the gratitude of the
community, at least, for this.
Another class of men are those who
hare aims. but who are impatient, and
want tact. These men plan well. bu
faii In execution. If they sometimes
had patience to wait, or If they possess
ed tact to adapt when portion of thei
scheme goes wrong. they might yet at'
tain some measure of success, Beinf
impatient, they are afflicted with an at
tendant evil, that Of being over san
guine. Their plans are always made uI
largely Of bright hopes, and when they
GDd how much more difficult il 10 u
realize than 70 anticipate great things
they lose faith in their own schemes
md abandon one that 10 half tried, FOL
1ncther that 10 no better in itself, bul