The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-06-12
KNOCK down AND GRAB.
AN INTERESTING view OF LIFE ADVANCED BY
A Celebrated PHYSICIAN


worth while dealing it does with the everpresen ques
on of what is true success:
'To want to be wanted, to fight and shove SINGLE
handed for place in the world evidences of strength
writes Dr. Stephen Page in his anonymous and untechnica
volume entitled ''Confesso Medici" Indeed with an
English derived largely from vivid and vital American
PSYCHOLOGIST and with large of all sides issues and
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Dr. Paget urges young doctors who
are willing him for advice to be doctors first and
whether they grow to be not hardly to
matter only they manage to attain to the great modern
market idol success Whether they live as they pass
along the way to him minor matter One thing
thew must take to heart they going to be doctors
they will have time to think about thinking feel
about feeling their business is to hustle build up
practice produce the impression that they know what they
are about and that it by their fault if the mix
ture fails to cure the patient upstairs
Well success is something though when COnten-
plates the great number of those who have succeeded one
cannot pause wonder if the prize is really worth the
price And to the victorious how will they tell
us? For is the first rule of the game that they should
not have pause to consider be conscious Dr. Paget
gives warning instance of doctor who took interest
the Ibsen drama and whose practice Wed and the rs
thing he knew the drama paed in interest and practice
had vanished he knew not where and he was left without
dramas and without patients in a most piteous case
Every man cannot be philosopher, but one would
like hail Socrates from the shades and set him to ques
tioning and denoshing Dr. Pagets theory OF success
which so closely resembles the theories of the worldly
Caices DR.. Paget cannot too strongly express his re-
probation of the retiring temperament. "Other names
for this temperament, he says, are unassu1n1g mid
SOFT feeble Such person will never never right force
his hold his and increase MS nOInS, ddNaICe
bring up renforcements, advance again. and beat thunder
ing the gates of success. In the nursery ne
writes of such person, he fond OF his toys but ne
let the other children play with them Oh reprehenSlDle
eebleness Compelled to take part IN athlete contests
he behaved rather than played; dl1gent, Polte /
tidy, punctious in religion, and glad to share Doth ms
prayers and his hampers with other boys found on the e
Of the authorities in times of feud and bearing his own
authority when to him, with provoking lneeIeSS
Such boys hold the world DR. Paget insists,
all wrong What we have to no in this world from the
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evidently enough round SO the man CeeV
the good doctors philosophy of life that we are 10 ~
to push, to elbow, to gain Importance ana name.
For still the Lord is Lord of might
In deeds in deeds, He takes delight
So he harks back to the old d1spersaton II seems seel5
odd that good and worthy can still 1--we ana -
in the world in the twentieth century and evolve theory
OF life and publish charming book about IT, WITHOUT @
1alntest or dmmest consciousness tnat tie OllS'
lived or spoken authoritative word
Only one chapter hints at something oe!olu 1 La
strength to grappe with The old Greek Destiny Va8es
occurs to DR.. Paget possible antagoSt 8e9 m ad ace
an man. power Of pushing If accident @ Paaa 9p pS To must con-
sole yourself with rejecting that once at any I5e o
were capable of knocking down your antagonist anu 8VC
what you wanted. Dizziness in old age IS DEUEL. az "
rate than side issues in the fight OF lie t1 fo+i,
The tiger and the ape in command the "Ilolo | -
Of this good and successful DOCTOR and ne couIel9
cultivate them diligently and become succesSlul W 80
ever cost and nerhaDs the Lord will preserve telL
any pause in activity wherein to weigh gains "a an 1ed
and find out the true value of what they showed anu
to get :4..+;ro
Any mans theory of life frankly set forth e IS ntefeSI IS ts
and valuable and the chief interest IN VS ocess1l
discovery of how very shallow consciousness Vi0
Consciousness is how very slight its content answer
Each faces the sphinx and ea6h o ma19t contains % his
according the depth of the vessel Wc Destiny
oveaes them on the prgage shall each @ ss6fion ~asaf59
sooner later when the inevitable pause @ al thew have
comes shall be consoled not by the VISION ~ IN but bv
the consciousness that they themselves ARE are day fro
That by few side issues little turning asT n w3v and