The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-06-25
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The following gems Of thought
have been bequeathed to posterity by
one whose eloquence was q lash on
the bare flesh of those who hopeless
~ and ignorantly opposed his beliefs.
but was an inspiration and uplift to
his friends who feebly followed where
the master mind led.
Maligned and scorned by many who
posed as purveyors of the only truth,
their word alone the law, he left to
those who knew and believed in him
the following homilies. Can you
name the author? -
Baptism with plenty of soap is a
good thing. 49,: 49,.
Honor cannot be received as aims
1T must be earned.
1t is the brow that makes. the
wreath of glory green.
Next to finding truths the greatest
joy is honest search. ,->:
An error cannot be believed sincere
ly enough to make it truth.
He who puts chains on the body Of
another shackles his own soul. =.
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sheds its perfume in the human heart.
The death penalty inflicted: by gov
eminent is a perpetual excuse for
mobs. ~-
You had better live well and die
honestly than to live and die praying.
Bruno was the first of all the Chris:
tian world who died for TRUTH. with
out expectation of reward.
In 1913 Copernicus' great work ap-
peared. The church fought that sys-
tenn of astronomy until 1921. r., =
Honesty is the oak around, which
all virtues cling: Without that they
fall, and groveling die in weeds and
dust. ~
believe the time will come when
public sentiment will be SO grand and
great, that it will be looked upon as
Infamous to perpetuate disease-to
leave a legacy of agony.
BY giving away information you
keep it, When you have told 1t, you
remember it. It is with information
IS it is with liberty-the only way to
be dead sure Of it, is to give it to
other people. -
I am willing to exchange facts for
epithets. I fare so much better than
did the doubters of, the olden times
that am more than satisfied. Only
few years ago they would have
burned me at the stake. Liberty is
making a tour of the world
The superior man is one who uses
his superiority in lettering the condt-
ton of the inferior. The superior man
is strength for the weak, eyes for the
blind, brains for the simple. He is
the one that helps carry the burdens
that nature has put upon his weaker
brother.
In the world Of fact science is legal
tender. Assertions and miracles are
base and spurious coin. We have a
right to rejudge even. the justice of
god. No one should throw away his
reason, the fruit Of all experiences. It
is the intellectual capital Of the soul
the only light-the only guide--and
without the brain becomes the palace
of an idiot king attended by retinue
of thieves and hypocites. IT,: II.
I believe in the religion. of the body
of physical development-in Edevo-
tional exercise--in: the tbeatitudes Of
SttoCAA uAleSS,; 6OOa HedlLH, SOOQ IOOQ,
good clothes, comradeship, generosity,
and above all, in happiness. I be-
lieve in salvation here and now. Sal
walton from deformity> and disease
from weakness and pain-from ennui
and insanity. I believe in heaven here
and now-the heaven Of health and
good dtgestion-of strength and long
nte-of usefulness and Joy: 49, -'.'..'
Find what a man enjoys-what he
laughs at-what he calls diversion
and you know what he is. Think of
man who calls himself: civilized, who
Is in raptures at a bull fight-who
smiles when he sees the hounds pur.
sue and catch and tear in pieces the
tinlid hare, and who roars with: laugh
ter when he watches the pugilists
pound each others faces, closing each
others eyes, breaking jaws and
smashing noses. Such men are be-
meath the animals they torture-or1
level with the pugilists they ap-
plaud 49,