The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-16
THE HARM OF THINKING.
4 Cynic Says 1t is the Greatest Folly
Inherited From Mother
Eve.
i Hilarity Induced by the Remark
of a Lawyer Who Had Quit
Drinking.
Danger of Thinking illustrated by Farm
sr's Son-The Logician In Disrepute-
Rhapsodies.

or's SOn-The Logiclan In Disreputo-
Rhapsodies.
1.-THE bane of this world is thinking, said
the man. ''It has done more harm than all
the other follies to which men and women
have been addicted since Eve thought it
sensible to take the advice of the serpent
and Adam thought it advisable, on the
whole, to accept the apple when his silly
wife offered it to him.
$50 that's what you think, is it?"
NO." said the man. II used to think it
when had no end of thoughts about every
thing under the canopy and for consider
able distance above it. Happily got over
thinking some years ago, and now I know
it. Thought is the bane of the world, the
curse of humanity. and the big tree in the
Garden Of Eden was not by any means the
tree of the knowledge Of good and
evil, or of anything else. 1t was the tree of
thinking; its branches were surmises, its
leaves were WITNESSES and guesses, and it's
fruit was humbug and sorrow. We don't Ito
this day know any more about good and
evil than Adam and Eve did before they
took high and lofty tumble and were
evicted from Eden for their pains. If we
really knew what good is and what evil is
we could escape the one and clutch the
other, but since those of us who are foolish
enough to think about such matters can do
nothing whatever but think, and never
know, Of course thev are perpetually max
'Critique of Pure Reason old man Kant
knocks the stufing out of thought, and lik-
two idiots Who want a drink Of milk. 40 one
~ 'n s;aue A tb i'm; Kant sizad the matter un
o oLo nto r;ch+ >, '>o ~
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ha was tens tty vIo "ds .ras . .mns
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sa;d thot R. u Hu,oo wss 10 ,, unt a
thinker ~ the aiohtaenth csntnrv ), ''
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ing is no good what good Sag Is a great think
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.h; sa ~ VIC .nan, waou q
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t;i;t. ~ th;rk;rn ME. 18th L,,e,v 800
daai howanar whsn v ou'u aa wv" It 'oc cHa
than,,, ~ pIot,,. thaorv' ~ Vnut,s the.er,,
~ Hs,hart Snancar's thaorv 81 Tono,s'
Dick,s or Harrv,s theory ia 40 and 40 and
ia nnterahIa hecsnsa 4 does not IN "a -
that should be inoluded and exclude ali that
should be excluded. such as A. Is. G and d.
YOU state thing as of fact and not Of opin-
ion or thinkinp. Well. Kant did that. and
SO did Hume. Hume never failed and Kant
failed only when he attempted to build I'M
with his moral hand-that is to saw. with
his left hand-what he had torn down with
his intellectual or right hand. Anv bow in
the street ought to be able to tell you that
"l'll ask the next one meet about it and
see what he will saw
IF the boy happens to be eating a baked
the head If Won do. However that IL not
strictly the point yet in old Webster's
reader bows we're tauoht the evils Of think
inc. Don't YOU remember that once when
a foolish old father had hidden his son to
saw I think three times before he statad a
fact. the result was that one dav. m the old
noodle was standing with his back close to
the fireplace, the youngste1 looked up
gravely and said: Father, / think Quite
right said the sire. Father. I think re-
peated the urchin. sExcellent. NV dear
son. said the old acknowledgements. rnbhinp
his hands with olee. Then. for the third
and last time, the bow exolaimed: Gather.
think your coat-taii is on fire.' The aged
idiot imagined that he had been teachino
his son a GOOD lesson. INT he himaelf re-
ceived a mighty sight better one.''
but, then, il YOU 90 to work ROUTING con.
tempt on thoupht this wav. what do Won
make of Montaione,s motto. One scnis-
ie?' his endeavors to find ont abont Tho nat
ter. and The linn conclusion ha came toS,
"You wrong old Michael. air ), said the
man with unnecessarv yehemanca s.Yon
wrong him air. His who,a endeavor wos ~
Get rid Of thinking and coma ~ ann,p lad
and this ia the verv reason yhv ha tra se,si
80 much and az far When ha + ID drnnrsd
used to think 40 and so, cavu ho shnt