The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-01

than another is mans capacity for
loving"
ARTHUR HELPS.
According to the test for greatness
given in the above quotation humanity
may be roughly divided into seven
classes
W Those who find enjoyment only
in such things rs satisfy abnormal crav'
ings of carnal appetites. Such people
find pleasure only in q debauch or ca
rousal. Coarse vulgar, and vile language
seasoned with senseless profanity radi-
ates from centers where beings of this
class congregate. 1t is indeed pitiable
sight to see anyone whose desires have
fallen to this level, which may be de-
nominated the sub beast"
t2) Those who love only such things
as can be eaten This is the Beast
class. All the animal cares for is enough
to eat. 1t is questionable whether
animal love ever can be of very high
order. In this class of humanity comes
the typical glutton whose god is their
belly" Though this level is higher than
the one first described, yet it il but very
low in the scale of true greatness. The
motto of the class is Eat, drink and be
merry" 1t includes individuals from
all nations, ages and classes of society.
Even the -four hundred" furnish their
quota.
t3) Those who enjoy only the accumu
lation and possession of great material
wealth. Their capacity for loving in-
cludes not only what may be put into
the body, but what may be propped up
around it, 1t includes whatever the
individual may by perseverance come
to call his own. He is constantly striv.
ing to become monarch of all he surveys
To this class belongs the avaricious man
of the parable who, because of this great
desire for material possession, was call.
ed "A fool In this class are also found
men of all classes OF society. A poor
man may have this uppermost desire in
his heart rs well M a rich man When.
ever person surrenders himself wholly
to this slavish desire, he must needs fall
in this class.
(N Those who enjoy only the accumu-
lation of mental power. We may be
intellectual gluttons IN we'll IN material
gluttons. Love of knowledge for its
own sake, though given by many M one
of the highest and worthiest motives for
study, is but higher form of selshness.
A man of great material wealth looking
down upon others less fortunate than
himself is no worse than IN intellectual
nabob despising his fellows who have
fewer attainments than he. Yet his
capacity for loving has II wider scope
includes a larger field, and therefore he
belongs to class by himself The first
three classes were confined to the ma.
terial world this class has entered the
spiritual. though only in II narrow at nse,
90 Those who love nature and see in
nature the manifestation of universal
laws, harmony, and beauty. This class
may be described ~ the previous one
with its eyes opened. The musty scho
| lasticism OF class four has disappeared
in the bright sunlight of Gods ont of
doors The vision has been extended
| The four walls have been torn down and
the horizon has become the boundary
The small duodecimo page is now only
| the key or guide to the larger book OF
nature. Poets, inventors, astronomers
| physicians, from all classes and
| all nations intermingle most pleasantly
in this class The bosterousness OF
materialism sounds far off in the dis
stance and in is place is the quietness
and beauty of II world whose laws are
executed without the least friction
Those who are in this class can, with
the poet, hold communion with Natur,
| in her visible forms They are never
alone.
60 Those who love Gods last ant
most perfect creation, - man. Here w,
find poets of "A higher order. Tepnyson
The lover of nature, is not so great IL,
Tennyson, the lover Of Arthur Hallam
Brook" and The Death of the Old Year
the latter gave us I'm Memoram
Think of u soul who is constantly com
muning with the great men of all agos
who includes in his circle Of friends tn.
thinkers OF the world. How wide ar,
his sympathies compared to the littl,
fellow who can find enjoyment only il
vile or In material things Think of tn,
opportunities we have We may hav,
NJ our daily companion anyone who's,
words have ennobled mankind an,
awakened higher aspirations.
| (1D Those who love not only the goo,
and great, but have reached the hghes
level of human greatness. those VIII,
have the capacity of loving fallen hu
manity. In this class are found thoa
men and women who are the mountain
peaks of human greatness. To low
those who are noble and good is no
difficult. but to recognize in the low an,
vile remnant of divinity, and to see il
the small remnant possibility 0
development is far greater task
Livingstone's greatness consisted not il