The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-08
EMPORIA NEW S.
Lake Of ThOught in slmpIe Aeis Of IKE.


We have but to observe human
action as it meets us on every
turn, to see that the average intel
ligence, incapable of guiding con-
duct even in simple matters whore
but very moderate reach of rea-
son would suffice, must fail in APP
pretending with due clearness the
natural sanctions of ethical prin-
ciples. The unthinking inaptitude
with which even the routine of
life is carried on by the mass of
men shows clearly that they have
nothing like the insight required
for self-guidance in the absense OF
authoritative code of conduct.
Take n days experience and OBJ
serve the lack of thought indicated
from hour to hour.
You rise in the morning, and,
while dressing, take vial contain
ing tonic, of which a little has
been prescribed for you; but after
the first few drops have been
counted succeeding drops run
down the side of the vial-all be-
cause the lip is shaped without
regard to the requirement. Yet
millions of such walls are annu-
ally made by glass-makers and
sent out by thousands of drug
gists, so small being the amount
of sense brought to bear on bust
ness. Now, turning to the look
ing glass, you find that, if not o.
the best make, 1t fails to preserve
the attitude in which you put it.
or, il what is called the. "boX'
looking glass, You see that the
maintenance of its position is in
sured by an expensive appliance
that would have been superfiuou
had. a little reason been used
Were the adjustment such tina
the center of gravity of the glass
came in the line joining the points
of support (which would be quite
as easy an adjustment), the glass
would remain steady in whateve
attitude you gave it. Yet yea
after year tens of thousands o
looking-glasses are made withou
regard TO SO simple o need. Pres
emily you go down to breakfast
and taking some Harvey or othe
sauce with your fish find the defec
like that which you found in tn
phial-it is sticky from the drop
which tricle down, and occasion
ally stain the table cloth. Her
are other groups or traders sim
ilarly so economical of though
that they do nothing to rectif
this inconvenience.
Having breakfasted, you tax
up the paper, and before sittin
down, wish to put some coal o
the fire. But the lump you seiz
with the tongs slips out of then
and if large, you mako several n
tenpts before you succeed in lii
ing tall because the end of til
tongs are smooth. Makers an
vendors of fire-irons go on, gel
Grafton alter generation, withol
meeting this evil, by the simpl
remedy of giving to these smoot
ends some projecting points,
even roughening them by n fe
burrs with a chisel. Having ;
length grasped the lump and pr
it on the fire, you begin to reaC
but before you have got throug
the first column, you are reminde
by the change of position whic
your sensations prompt, that me
still fail to make easy chair
And yet the guiding principle
simple enough, Just that adva
tage, secured by using a soft SCI
in place of n hard one-the adva
tage-namely, of spreading over
large area the pressure of II
weight to be borne, and so makir
the pressure less intense at al
one points an advantage to
sought in the form. of the cha
Ease is to be gained by makiI
the shapes and relative inclinati'
of seat and back such as W
evenly distribute the weight of {
trunk and limbs over the wide
possible supporting surface, al
with the least straining of Il
parts out of their natural at
tudes. And yet only now, aft
these thousands OF years of civ
ization, arc there being reacht
land that not nationally but ell
pirically approximations to Il
structure required.-Herbert Spe
Ger.