The Arizona sentinel., 1876-09-23
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS- HIRAM s. STEVENS
DELUSI0N.


 vast and the applications to be made, so limitless that we could not dispose oft in the space that we can devote to one leading ar ticle. In fact large volumes might be written and the subject be still unexhausted. Of all the animals in the world, man seems to be the greatest victim of delusion. With all the vast knowledge that he has acquired he is stillliable to be led astray at every step. In this respect, with all his reasoning powers, he is according. to the poet, worse off than the brute; for: Reasoning at every step he treads,
 Man stil mistakes his way,
 While meaner things whom instinct leads,
 Are never known to stray"
 The reason of this is, that man, being endowed with the high at tribute of reason, is. the only pro- pressiye being on the earth, and therefore he goes on, always sear- ching for and grasping after some thing better, higher and nobler, never satisfied with the attained, but ever searching and longing after the unattainable; never sa- tisied with his finite powers and condition, but ever reaching and grasping after the infinite. This is right, and in accordance with the law of infinite progression. But how terribly he is beset by delu- sions, all through his course. How many fearful mistakes he makes and how he is led astray by false lights This is evidenced by the number of ismS and dog mas into which good,conscientious ard honest men are continually running; men equally good and equally conscientious, each hon. estly believing that he is right and that the other is wrong.
 We have been speaking of the better class of mankind-Of men who earnestly desire to be right and to do right, as being peculiar ly subject to delusion. And this is because they are searchers after truth, and earnest workers in the great field of human progress. That the drOnes in the great hu man hive are not subject to these delusions and mistakes that beset the earnest worker, is accounted for in the same manner that the man accounted for his immunity from drowning; that was, that he never went into the water. But the drones, in which class we in clude all men and women who seem to think that the world was made for the purpose of giving them an unceasing round of plea sure. without any exertion on their part, and who do not care whether human society progresses or not, are the victims of fearful delusions. They start out with grand delusion; for life of list less inactivity never did and nev- CT can confer happiness and peace. The most miserable wretch i'm aginable is he who has nothing to do, nothing to hope for and noth ing to aspire after. The man who starts out with the idea that "the world owes him a living" is most fearful4y deluded. All, that the world does owe him and all that .ie;:-;;ii->rra5t .ie II r>r- biy gets is piece of ground six feet by two. into which. t0 deposit his worthless carcase. It is lamentable to reflect how many young men start out delud- ed with false ideas of life, it's end and aims. The peot burns felt this when he wrote those warn. ing lines. cCtsr- f;l[
 Oh man when in thy early days.
 How prodigai time
 Misspending all thy precious hours,
 Thy glorious youthful prime;
 Alternate follies take the sway,
 LiceHtious passions burn,
 But soon you learn in after years
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