The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12


6HE day was warm and | wan
dered to narrow strip of woods |
to repose beneath the shady |
trees. binding suitable spot
was soon at peace with the world.
However, was soon joined by Solo
mon of modern times who began to
discourse on the tendencies of thought.
Therefore drew forth my notebook
and as he discOursed made notes.
"Yes," said he, "the human race still
continues to drift along on the river
of time"
s.For better or worse ?" said l.
~Well," he replied, 81 cannot think
that the race of man follow those
paths commonly termed human ma
ture, which is but an excuse for mis-
directed energies" He assumed a
recumbent position then continued:
-.The Juggernaut wheels of Time have
effaced authentic records of mans
origin. To fables, scientific researches,
mythology-in short, to the ologies and
isms, we are indebted for the oppor-
tunities of famiIlarizing ourselves
with the achievements and progress of
the human race. These sources con-
tribute to mans natural desire to at
tain, as it is termed, knowledge. And
such familiarity enables one to learn
of the standards of receded ages; also
enabling one to penetrate the mysteries
of life with its contributary sources.
Thus-in the natural trend of human
existence; in the daily vocatiOns; in
personal and general conduct; in our
relations to men, as well as our general
inclinations or proclivities-we may
unconsciously presume that the trend
of modern thought is few degrees
above that prevalent in the time of
our ancestors; considerable advanced
in comparison with the prevailing ideas
in remote times. In assuming such
conceptions are we not deluding our
selves with modernized vanity2 Nat
uraliy each succeeding age imagines
that it conduces to the moral, inteliec-
tual and spiritual advancement of man.
kind in general. However, the cycles
of Time have failed to elevate mental
titles to sufficiently eradicate the visible
hypocrisy of thinking. From the evil
dent manifestations of thought are
born, nourished and disseminated, those
peculiar germs of idleness, vanity, so
cial inequality and physical weaknesses
that rebounds to the discredit of the
human ace-occasionally resulting in
misery, sorrow, unwholesome condi
tions, flippancy and crime.
"The presumptuousd doctrines of early
ages have been filtered thru the micro
scopical visions of moderated though
and the result has been somewha
universal taboo. Clearly, it appears
that the ignorance of remote peoples
made them susceptible to erroneou
beliefs regarding the Importance o
personsges, and such ideas pertaining
to sorcery, witchcraft, etc,-due, most
iy, to fallacious reasoning. And YET
the practices of antiquity have beel
passed from era to era deriving Eey
significance, or appearing in othe
forms. Search the ineffaceable record
where immortal writers have depicte
the fawning sophisticators, illusionar
dreams Of races, and the results there
of What have we? Conceivable falls
ideas that contribute to the susceptible
temperaments of men; and which seer
to foster themselves in the minds {
succeeding generations-fallacies {
immOderately nutured minds!
"Cycles of undertaking time hay
rolled away; ages and ages have tra1
ersed the immobile earth; generation
and generations, long forgotten, al
slumbering in silent tombs; kingdom
have been united and dissolved-an
yet, the constant streams of humanit
are still beguiled by sophism, knaver
crude reasoning; Jacobfnism foment
and the noxfous effinvia is traceable
Hypocrisy of thought Let us glance
the reasoning of today.
@First, that subject of the most II
portance to all persons-spiritu
thought. Today there ere many q