The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-06-01
MARY ZILhA HARPER
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ASPIRATIONS.

ASPIRATIONS.
It is the nature of all mankind to as
pire to something, but all do not find
the path to that which is most valua-
BILE and good.
Many people aspire to wealth, some
to fame and honor: some to rank and
power; but who will deny that the as
piration which stands above them all
is the desire for knowledge.
/ Those who attain erudition must be-
i gin standing on the first round of a
ladder which extends from the COM
mon facts of existence to that most
wonderful of realms, the realm OF
knowledge.
Step by step we scale this mysterious
ladder, every noble effort bringing us
nearer the star upon which eye is liked,
and in proportion to our determination
to rise we upward and onward to inn
mortality. one who is gaining lSnowl-
edge is also building character; for
who can read of the wonderful charac-
tiers in our history and not aspire to be
noble and good?
And who can watch nature in her
: PROJECTIONS and not realize that man
the lord Of all earthly creation, should
be perfect as well?
The mind, natures greatest gift to
man, is the instrument with which one
must carve out this destiny; and since
growth is one of natures laws, the
: mind above all else should grow and
. expand.
e Naturally the mind viii not be con
cealed: it hates darkness, and rushe'
d into light Then why is 1t so man,
minds seem never to leave their in
l. fancy in grasping the greater and
re deeper facts of this unive- Sc? Simply
y because they are ont allowed to launcl
~ out into the unknown, and continent
Y are discovered only while sailing un
/ travelled seas Every life should fin
. its purpose, and then every eifor
N should be put forth for its attainment
a. And IL is an universal maxim tina
OF every person may set his own rat
e, Persons and events may for a tim
at come between him and the goal, cloud
III may obscure his pathway, but he
&C. soon left to determine for himse
&c whether he sneak about and deny h
ne own name, or whether his work be pro
duced to the concave sphere of II
ne heavens. one with the revolution
~. "a the stars
us For one to face a future which
IT filed with high aspirations, require
en- the most indomitable courage ar
20 self reliance.
we Though one be a deep thinker. If
] trust not MS lllOttiNc an 'Sif~'e'-fA
re- they are blown from earth as chi
~ before the wind.
I'LL Every person arrives at the co
on viction sooner or later that imitation
,,,a suicide.
,lic Familiar as the voice of the mind
ing to each. the highest merit we ascribe
ign Plato. Socrates, Galiileo, is that tn
let set at naught theories and tradition
ms and spoke not what man, but WI
W they thought.
snt why should so many minds be cree
mas ed to repeat the same things?
ths The worlds greatest philosopher J
% said that what he knew was as ou
pne grain of sand from the seashore.
70 Therefore there are oceans OF tn
,pig yet to be expounded by the minds
mas the present and future ages.
pie Nature has armed each person "
the some piauancy or power which enat
'he him to perform some feat Impossible
~, any other.
the DO not think that youth has no 10
OF or virtues because the world has
ny found them out.
or why, 1t Is that very lump OF ba
no" fulness, who has done nothing
weeks but eat while you were by,
have now rolls forth those words which
way echo through the ages.
g or Robert Fulton was looked upon
the youth of unusual stupidity, but
some powerful strokes of that mind
iblic. sent gigantic steamships ploughing
o us briny pillows to every part OF
re- globe.
Cling Though I could reach from pole to
from Or grasp creation in my span,
e has 7 must be measured by my soul
zen 0 Tic MINIS The STANDARD OF the