Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-07-27

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smiths forge. but many ministers
who are preaching In our large cities
today could easily step from the pulpit
to the blacksmith forge and strike a
herculenn blow. 70 great is their phys.
ical ns we'll as mental stamina.
enter the law Offices Of the late Sen.
ator william n. Evarts. "Mr. Choatc,
I say, "why ala your partner make the
wonderful success he did? For years
he stood at the head Of the New York
bar" Our late Ambassador to Eng.
land answers: Because Mr.. Evarts
was a good animal. He could cit down
at HE desk and work on a case day In
ana day out for eighteen hours out Of
every twenty lie had mental
equipment, and he had also unlimited
physical resources" William NJ. EvartS
was able to succeed when others failed
because his backbone was strong az n
made Of steel. What Ia true of the
lawyer aud minister Is also true of the
physician, the inventor and the mer-
chant. The reason one class Of men
fails and the other succeeds Is often
due not more to great mental strength
than to physical stamina.
1.-THE survival of the fttest." Oh, yea,
We And It IN the law Of physical equip
ment Young men, young women, in
this struggle Of life are you going to
allow yourselves to be trampled under
foot merely because you do not look
after your physical health2 Are you
going to let the great opportunities OF
life slip from your grasp merely be.
cause you have not taken the proper
physical exercise and food and sleep
for your lungs and heart and stomach?
"Oh." said William T. Sherman to
General Grant one day. II feel Just as
able to carry on another war as did
twenty years ago" You may feel SO,
Sherman" answered General Grant.
but feeling SO does not make you able
We may he mentally MS bright as VIC
ever were, but we could not stand tho
physical strain The civil war was
fought and won just as much by
Grants stomach as by Grants brain.
Young people. by the law Of the surviv.
al Of the fittest God bids you take core
Of yourselves physically. This Ia tru.
ism. but 1t ia a truism the Darwinian
teachings. as well as the divine com.
mandments. never tire Of pressing
home to human hearts. see the broad,
stout chested farmers boy coming to
the town and pushing the pale faced
physical weaklings TO right and left.
Christian communion.
would also tell you that there Is IN
memorable law Of the survival of the
6ttest In the mental world. The man
who can think the quickest, the man
who can supply some long felt want In
the community, Is the man who Is going
TO crowd his competitors to the wall.
and there is no help for it. The same
law which makes 1t possible for q cat
to pounce upon little chicken or o
leopard to leap upon the back Of O
fawn Is precisely the same law whicl,
makes 1t possible for the man Of brains
to climb TO his throne over the backs OF
men who have no brains. Communism
says: THAT Is not right No one man
should have more than his fellows u
But communism may talk from now
until doomsday. Talking will do no
good. There is a universal law Of the
survival Of the flttest in n mental way,
and no communism except the com.
munism Of Christian love can change it,
How is this law working out-that
brains which think trample over brains
which do not think? Why, you can see
its results on every hand. Thirty OF
forty years ago every little town had
It's cobbler. This cobbler not only re.
paired the shoes and boots, but also
made the shoes and boots. but one day
there came along a man with brains
He said to himself: what Is the use
Of all these cobblers making their
boots by hand? / will make machinery
do the work Of flesh and blood" This
man Of brains went to work. He built
large factory. He employed 2OC
hands. He made these 200 hands, with
the use Of machinery, do five times the
work which the same number of hands
used to do. He also lowered the sell.
ing prices. The shoes and boots were
sold one third cheaper than they used
to be. The man Of brains who drove
out the village cobbler was the same
kind Of man that drove out the village
wheelwright. The man OF brains who
drove away the village cobbler Ia also
the kind of man Of brains who tool,
away the business Of the typesetter
One day this man Of brains walked
into the printing Office and said: Here
editor, Ia a typesetting machine. In
stead Of employing twenty, thirty. fifty
men to set your type, all that you will
have to do 10 to have man sit down
at this machine. as Padercwski sits
down at the piano. He can play the
keys for awhile and the whole work II
DONE" But" cry the village cobblert
and the village wheelwrights and the
old typesetters. you have taken away
our life's work. We cannot do aughl
but follow the line Of work we used te
do. We shall starve. We shall die
But the memorable law of the survival
Of the fittest means that these mn
chimes shall exist and that the man oil
thinking brains shall triumph over tho
man whose brains never think.
GETTING Sidetracked.
The flttcst survive In tho mental
realm. There Is no doubt about It
Now. my friends. and especially my
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