Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-15
THOUGHT.


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THOUGHT.
The Consequences Of its Lack In tho Sim
tHefbers Spencer in the Popular Science Monthly y.
meets Us at every turn to see that the average
intelligence. Incapable of guiding conducl
even in simple matters where but very
moderate reach of wisdom would suffice
must fail in experimenting with due clearness
the natural sanctions OF ethical principles
The unthinking naptitude with which even
the routine OF life is carried on by the mass
of mon shows clearly that they have nothing
like the insight required for self-guidance in
the absence OF an authoritative code OF con-
duct. Take a days experience and observs
the lack oil thought indicated from hour to
hour.
You rise in the morning, and. while dress
Ing. take phial containing tonic. II which
little has been prescribed for you; but after
the first few drops have been counted sue
ceeding drops run down the side Of the phial
--all because the lip is shaped without regard
to the requirement. Yet millions Of such
phials are annually made by glass-makers
and sent out By thousands of druggists; so
small being the amount of sense brought to
bear on the business. Now, turning to the
looking-g glass, you find that, ii not of the
best make it fails to preserve the attitude in
~rhiob ifs nr If tyhnf fS ralInI q
s'box'' looking glass, you see that the main-
tenance of its position is insured by an ex-
pensive appliance that would have been SUI
perffuous had little reason been used. Were
the adjustment such that the oenter Vt grav-
ity Of the glass came in the line joining the
points OF support (which would be quite as
easy an s.:.lustmentl, the glass would remain
steady in whatever attitude you gave it. iel
year after year tens of thousadds of looking
glasses are made without regard to SO simple
need. Presently you go down to break asst.
and taking some Harvey or otner sauce with
your fish find the bottle has a defect like thai
which you found in the phial-it Is sticky
from the drops which triekle down, and oc-
ofkeqfn ag!tlSSubbtsa i51r tffs&aeqsb fsny
omical of thought that they do nothing to
rectify this Inconvenience.
Having breakfasted. you take up the paper,
and. before sitting down, wish to put some
coal on the fire. But the lump you seize with
the tongs slips out of them. and If large. you
make several attempts before you succeed in
lifting it-all because the ends of the tongs
are smooth. Makers and vendors of fire.
irons go or, generation after generation,
without meeting this evil by the simple rem
edy of giving to these smooth ends some pro-
jecnng points. Or even roughening them by
a few burrs with chisel. Having at lengts
grasped the lump and put it on the fire. you
begin to read; but before you have got
through the first column, you are reminded
by the changes OF position which your sci sa-
tions prompt, that men still fail to make easy
chairs. And yet the guiding principle is sim
pie enough. Just that advantage, secured by
using colt seat in place OF d bard one-the
advantage, namely, OF spreading over large
area the pressure of the weight to be borne,
and SO making the pressure less intense at
airy viz pViHt~iS al ~ DC Scus ~
III the form OF the char. Ease is to be gained
by milking the shapes and relative inclina-
ton Of the seat and back such MS will evenly
distribute the weight Of the trunk and limbs
over the widest possible supporting surface,
and with the least straining OF the parts out
Of their natural attitudes And yet only now.
after these thousands of years of civilization.
are there eng reached land that moi ration
ally but emperically) approximations Of the
structure required.