The Glenwood post., 1905-03-04
SATURDAY, MARCH a, 1908.
THE ILLUSIONS or LIFE

Have you ever noticed the prone
ness of the human mind to er
ror? Perhaps not, because error of
thought, like habit, comes upon us
unannounced and so subtle is it that
it is with difficulty we detect its
presence 1t steals into our lives so
insiduously that we are somewhat
startled when confronted with it face
to face. The teachings of childhood,
whether truthful or erroneous, cling
TO us with an especial tenacity. And
yet in our later years we often reach
the conclusion that We have for many
years past based our thoughts and our
line of reasoning upon an entirely
false premise and while physical con-
ditions change but little the human
mind is constantly veering, sometimes
from the erroneous to the true and
perhaps quiet as often from the true
to the false.
This is doubtless owing largely to
our inability to measure matters in
their comparative sense. We have
been taught that certain lines of con
duct were harmful or sinful. We
look at them again and examine them
more carefully and we fail to find any
harm in them per Sc. Another who
has regarded these same lines of con
duct as harmless is suddenly made to
see in them the greatest evil. Many
questions of this character always
have been and probably while the
world stands will continue to be the
subject of legitimate discussion and
honest doubt.
The young man laying his plans for
the future covets II fortyacre tract
which he considers large farm but
twenty years later he refers to his 200
acres AS a small farm. The boy of
ten with fishing pole twelve feet
long refers to it as very long pole
and yet the man of forty reminds him
that it is not nearly so long as the
telephone pole or the mast of ship.
Do you remember the high bluff which
in your boyhood days you passed on
your way to the country schoolhouse
You thought it a mountain and yet as
you gazed at it in after years and con
trasted it with the huge Rocky noun
tains you wondered why you ever con
sidered it more than a very inferior
hillock.
There are men and women every
where who delight in telling us that
the world is constantly growing worse,
altogether losing sight of the fact that
with the facilities of thought trans
portaton and the wonderful achieve
ments of the daily press the deeds OF
vice and crime throughout the world
are brought to our notice within {
few hours after their committal anC
we are Mortified by the apparent
amount of depravity and crime, not
necessarily because there is more of il
than one hundred years ago, but be
cause it is more pro minently brought
to our notice. We take a long jour
ney and we unexpectedly meet those
we have known in other distant lands
and we say the world is becoming
smaller, when the truth is we have by
our wonderful system of transporta
ton apparently annihilated space.
Last Wednesday former Senator Ed
ward o. Wolcott died in Monte Carlo
France and before the day was ovei
the news had reached Glenwoot
Springs. The cablegram and the tel
ephone had brought Western Colorado
and sunny France close together. Tn,
world is not getting smaller. TIL.
Post does not believe it is growing
more sinful. These are illusions
forced upon us largely by the achieve
ments of modern science and com
merce. Verify, the world dc
move