Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-26

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Dr. w. A. Hammond SAYS phvsicians
place high value upon the novel as .
therapeutic agent, ,and gives an instance.
IN DIS own practice. of an over-taxed
clergyman whose life was saved by
course OF Charles Dickens.
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The ultimate postulate ?'' said 1.
Live and learn." said the professor.
"Ah! Is that the denouement? Give
the Snowman who advertised at the en-.
trance: Walk in, ladies and gentle
men. and learn something that may
save your lives Upon payment
of the admission fee the gull
lible were inducted to where a
man sat with jack-knife in
one hand and pine stick in the other.
AS the shavings curled off before the
blade, he chanted monotonously:
when you whittle, whittle from you!
When you whittle, whittle from you!
This may save your life."
but he had not misrepresented,
Theophrastus. Nor have I. Live and
learn. From the cradle to the grave
we are accumulative OF knowledge, and
of nothing else. The proper object of
human pursuit is the acquisition of
knowledge. No other acquisition is so
constant, permanent and progressive, or
opens up such an illimitable field.
Mind may be conceived of as en-
gagged in the acquisition of knowledge
throughout the countless ages of eter-
nifty. You can think of no other quest
upon which rational disembodied
spirit could be engaged, with interest,
forever. The whole economy OF nature
is in harmony with the postulate: Live
and learn. From the very first
Nature. the old nurse took
The child upon her knee,
Saying: Here is a story-book
Thy Father hath written for thee.
All the vicissitudes OF mans life are
for his instruction, and for nothing else.
Whether he grows rich, or whether he re-
mains poor, of one thing we may be sure
--he will learn. Rightly measured,
then, we have here an ineligible, prac-
tical, dignifed, worthy, catholic and in
finite object of human pursuit. a matter
OF the first importance to the inquiring
mind asking the purpose of his exist
ence and that of the universe"
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Jack has never been to the theater,
and the little girl tells him what it is
like: "Oh, it is where everything ia
the way it ought to be, and the people
do things that make you laugh and cry
and they seem to live all their lives, and
yet it is over in two or three hours.
They fall in love and kill each
other and make plots. You
see what both sides are doing,
instead of seeing only one side, as with
real people; and 60 you get excited and
you wonder how it will end. And every
thing they cay means something, in
stead Of being only "How do you doY'
and "It's fine day." as real people do !;
and they tell you all they feel and all
they mean to do, just as you
think things when you are
alone. like the tragedies the
BEST" What are trjedies?" Jack in
quired. Tragedies are where they die
at the end" she said, ''and all sorts Of
awful things happen--murders; and
lovers are parted, and people make
dreadful mistakes, and when the truth
comes to be known, it is too late. And
oh, you feel 90 sorry-so sorry but not
disagreeable hind OF sorry, as you
do at anything that is not nice
really, but noble sort of sorry-ever 60
much better than only laughing and not
minding things. Then. when it is over,
great green curtain comes down, and
you go out, and there are people going
up and down the streets, just as II
nothing had happened, and it's so COM
mon and stupid you can hardly stand
it. 1t makes you wish there were no
real people alive. ~ Fortunes Fool.