The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-03

pares the dawuinz Of a new :dea 70 the
turning ever Of st1ne lcag ls1i,eoosd N
the bind ard wriggling creatures wAleh
ind habssat.on under the rock. re says:
.but no sooner Is the Wholesome Esht 81
blinded community of creeping taihss tnan
al Of them which sntoy me luAary OF lsss
round wildly. hurting each other and ev-
erything n their way and eTd n a gen
sral Stamped. for underground retreats
from the region poisoned by sunshine.
The light Of truth hurts only noxious
things. Ncxious things however, d. not
know themselves as such. Some OF them
In directing our wcrk We must. II last
depend upon ourselves. Each mast select
for himself the particular field \ which
tuition OF his mind BE what nature in,
oa Wiz k' succeed &c s f ss anna
you are ten thousand times worse than a
failure" And I VIII add. happy above al
life 20 follow the natural ben, Of his mind.
TINS natural bent Is the stamp 1t the Gre
ator, which should show him his work.
Let nm be wise in his choice.
Possibly It may be unwise TO point out
some OF the principles regarded by me as
OF great value In determining the false
work in the world. I shall, however. VEN
ture very briefly to note some of these.
First II may De said with absolute truth
in the words Of Victor Hugo: There ara
no bad plants or men. only bad euitivat-
ors-" The Great Spirit, we are told. sur
veyed His work and pronounced Il very
as positive entity. What appears 10 US
as evil is either imperfect. excessive or
misdireeted good. Undertake. for a mo-
placing upon one side OF this every quality
considered Sv.l-for good and evil are SIM
ply Qualities attached TO things-and on
good. or OF value 10 men. You vii, now
become convinced that OF all thus labeled
good there is absolutely, nothing not
capable Of perverson. or of becoming bad.
You will also see that all named evil I'M
der certain circumstances. is capable of
use and of becoming Of value to man. Evil
exists, in this world at least, only in the
mir d Of man, and resides there simply and
only, as imperfect, excessive or lnisdirected
good.
Secondly-Everything of value to man
results from proper harmonlzation Of
opposing forces. Nothing considered good
exists which does not arise from an equi-
Hbrium first maintained between antag-
onistic powers. conditions or qualities.
Man himself affords a striking example Of
this. Harmony must be established be-
tween the physical and mea;al. between
the animal and the intellectual IL either
is in excess harm results and evil is pro-
duced. The true man. the wise man and
the successful man is the product of the
equilibrium between soul and body first
established. Mems sano in corpore sano.
And this duality Of things ascends to the
highest space and descends 10 the lowest
tenn Is held In place by the equilibrium
first maintained between centrifugal and
certrpetal forces. Day and night. heat
and cold. positive and negative. summer
and winter. light and darkness. male and
female. and all the forces of the universe
repeat the law. All of value-and even life
itself-comes from the fermentation Of
opposing forces. All harm. or evil. arises
from lack OF harmOn!zation: from i'm
perfect. excessive or misdirected effort
shall not here attempt to Illustrate.
Thirdly-1n forming our opinions We are
restricted 10 two methods. for there are
but two. First one must Judge Of new
thoughts presented to him by comparing
judge Of them by his opinion OF the man
who utters them. The second is said TO
be the distinctvely feminine method. II
woman likes person or speaker. she
is said to be nearly sure to approve what
he may say that Is new or therefore un-
known to her. That this is a distinctively
feminine method 1. most emphatica,ly
he calls his opinions in this way. AS a
matter of fact, he has no opinions. He
has only prejudices. And prejudice is the
ideas poor relation: prejudice and opinion
bearing much the same relation to each
other that gizzards do to respectable stom-
achs. And when We. for OF course we
attemp. to pass upon the value of thought
by comparing II witk our own, We are
appalled, by the fact. soon discerned. that
our own thought. our only measure. is i'm
perfect and faulty. Alas! how imperfect
and faulty. then. must be all our work.
Some years ago | attended debate in
which important. matters were discussed.
Both sides Of the question were ably pre-
scented. At the close a person present said
to me: When you hear Mt -, OF the
affirmative, you think he is all right, and
you think he is al right. Now. what are
you going TO do?''
Sure enough, what is such a person to
do? The trouble with this person was that
which afflicts all uneducaIed. uniformed
had within himself no continuing citadel OF
intelligence upon which he was privileged
to rely. It 10 for you, my young friends
who have here begun the struggle OF lie,
to remember that unless YOU can depend
upon yourselves and the God within, your
work will finally be rejected and you your
selves thrust aside OF little worth.
You have here only begun the work Of
the world. True educatio. can never stop
short OF the Great White Throne itself.
Every truly intelligent man regards him
self as student and a learner to the end
OF his days. And II there is another stage
of existence beyond this Improvement viii
there continue. For myself. 1 believe there
Is and | believe also that future existence
proves pre-eXistence We are In the mid
die of things And all OF us upon an
ascending scale. Advance - the law of the
universe Some NAV have advanced fur
Their than others. But FOR every son and
daughter OF mortality There Is room IN the
Fathers house.
For Us all there is hut one law and one
duty. The law is the law nf advance and
the duty is TO work white IL is day for
the night cometh in which no man can
work.