Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-07-12

M9JI W. York American.
RiL 4kG s'Win you kindly let us know
! lTtk kRk through the American what your
Z k45UlAlU2 views are upon the subject OF Fa-
S.l2Ss talityi Are there, in your opinion,
such things as Luck and Destinyi Please give US
your views this subject completely as you can,
oblige."
have been wondering what it was that moved
Mr., ROstOn to write me the above request. Ia he
discOuragedf Has he been doing lot OF thinking
lately upon the matter of which he writes, and has
he come to the conclusion that be is the slave OF
great something or other called Fate or Destinyi
hope not. But lest it should turn out that he is
the unfortunate victim Of such deusion would re-
spectiully request him to read up on the thrilngy
interesting story Of Mans career on this earth.
Read Just one bOok--if you have not the time to
read mOreO-Tyler's HAnthrOpOlogy,' and you will
find yourself quite disenchanted Of the Destiny de-
/ lusOn.
The whole story of Man on this GLOBE from the
dim and miserable beginning down to the present
moment, is the account not Of human weakness, but
OF human power the story not of a Tesistess fate
that does with us as It pleases but Of the wonderful
human Brain and VIII, which laugh at destiny and
defy It'll
When the first faint rays of history are turned on
to the human creature he appears in most pitiabIe
light.
Pathetic in the extreme is the dumb testimony
rendered by the early Stone Age when Man and the
Cave Bear and the great wOOlly Rhinoceros and the
ern Of the habitable parts Of the earth.
Il looked gloomy for the Man! He Was ignorant.
He had next to no weapons. Beneath the clouds
through which the thunder beloved and the light
ming flashed he trembled like "guity thing
afraidlD
Hungry, hali-clad, physical weakling in compaT
sOn with the great brutes around him, with nothing
but his club as against the powerful natural
weapons Of his giantlike adversaries, the odds
against him seemed to be insurmountabei
But Earth's youngest child vas full OF 'grit-" He
stood his ground. BE invented new weapons new
means Of defence and ofiense, and presently be bad
the monsters about him ct a decided disadvantage.
By and by be tanned the brutes and made them
serve him. His superstition slowly made way for
reason and seli-cOnfdence for the COOL level headed
thinking which was to give him the victory.
Next he tackled the earth, and made it give him
bread, fruits, clothing.
Then he looked ND toward the high heavens,
where the thunders had rOared that made him item
BILE, where the lightnings had flashed that struck
terror to his soul-and be found out that there was
no need Of being afraid that be was greater than the
elements that had affrighted him.
And he reached forth his hand and tanned those
awful elements, as he had tanned the beasts Of
the field.
Science was bornl And Science sounded the
death knell Of the ancient fear. When Science came
The old superstition about External Destiny bowed
It's hasty adieu and fed.
Man was free Mind had conquered matterl VIII
bower had triumphed over the supposed Necessity
inhering in natural law
Mind Will!-these are the severn facts, and
when these things speak the opposition trembles
md gets out OF the way
And what is true Of the race is equally true Of the
individual. With the individual, as with the race
be supreme thing is Mind, VIII, the assertion Of
gsIe Self.
The greatest Of psychologists knew perfectly we'll
what be was about when he made one Of his char
acters exeaim: 1T is not in our stars, but in our
Selves that we are underlings.0
From the conning-tower Of Mind let the commands
be tbnndered-and the slip goes straight against
all the winds and waves Of destiny
Fatei Yes there is iate-the fate that is de-
creed by the omnipotant win, the g0d.like Reason
As the greatest Man once declared, each one Of
us may ezclaim: can power in heaven and earth is
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