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and truths which underlie all the Won
ders of the universe. We have mind,
which, for all we know, is not inferior
to any mind, and it is our privilege and
our duty to use it.
We are not naturally Independent in
our thought We are continually see
ing evidence of this. Almost all our
opinions bear the influence of some
thing we have read or heard somewhere
at some time. The few persons in the
world who have become really inde-
pendent in thought have become ia
nous for it. We do certain kind of
thinking when we are studying certain
branches, or when we are reading what
some one else has written, but this is
not the true, the real thinking. In
such thinking the mind only follows as
it is lead on. 1t does not of it's own
accord reach out and try to find some
truth in the unknown. We may de-
velop our physical nature by going
through the same dumb bell move
ments every day, by walking over the
same road every day, but the mind can
not attain to the highest development
by reading the same thing, solving the
same problems and thinking the same
thoughts every day. AS a ship goes
far out from shore in order to see what
lies in the great ocean before it, so the
mind must reach further and further
from the established facts in order to
see what lies beyond in the great ocean
of truth. We see thousands of things
every day in nature that should cause
us to think and reflect upon the great
principles which underlie them, but so
far are we from this that we actually
call one who does study these lessons
philosopher.
Most of us do not take time to think.
We are in too big rush. If we are at
work, our work requires attention to
certain extent. If we are studying
book we are getting the thoughts of
are so busy finding out what other peo-
pie think that we do not stop to ask
what we ourselves think. Too eager to
hear another persons argument on a
question to stop to inquire whether or
not we ourselves have an opinion.
The men who have moved the world
in all history have been the thinkers
those who have made thinking their
business and stood up for what they
thought was truth. The names Of
Galileo, Newton, Luther and Franklin
are among the brightest in history.
Emerson has said: every revolution
was first a thought in one mans mind.
Every reform was at one time pri-
vate opinion By one mans mind the
old theories regarding the movements
of the solar system were renounced.
One man who had mind of his own,
dared to set it up against Rome and
the world, against Pope and potentate,
and started the fire of the reformation
which swept away the old superstitions
and customs. Millions of men had
seen an apple fall to the ground, but it
remained for one man to see in its fall
ing the working of great law, and to
give the law of gravitation to the
world. Men had shrunk from the
binding flash for thousands of years
before one mind was so far-reachlng
as even to think of the possibility of
man claiming the lightning from the
clouds and making it his agent.
We call such men great. They were
men who were not content with know
ing what other men thought, but who
: thought for themselves.
Possibly some may question the
4 right of man to think independently
: We may say: "Man has a right to be
T independent to certain degree, but
n should not 60 beyond that" Man was
t born into the world with mind. II
is his privilege and his duty to make
. the most of it. Whether he has one
/ talent or five talents, he should use
a them to the best advantage. He might
Just as we'll have been born into the
h world with mind fully developed, bu1
!. his Creator gave him mind as some
" thing which he himself should develop
l. to the best of his ability.-JOhn H
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