Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-28
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the Toad That Sweed Up Until He Burst
A reader sends in this letter which we answer:
e Dear n5 more a1sss %G and a the u s and station
Successful ana ambitious Wouldn't prominent happier
make rues? kindly
the world instead Z aqslHF the
That interesting twolegged animal charge of this earth
called wound complicated fashion Twelve
instincts or attractions them as you please
animate and control him
OF these twelve passions NINE are actual moving forces
THREE direct and control the other nine
Among the nine MOVING forces in man there are three
that viii ignore the others for the present
Frs, and most necessary is THE INSTINCT OF SELF
PRESERVATION That instinct kept alive forced them to
continue living this earth under horrible conditions of cold
and hunger and brutality Nature wisdom made the instinct OF
sefpresevaton very poweruln primitive man to keep hmm on
earth do his work here In the of thirty thou
sand and OF today the instinct OF sepreeryaton
all powerful You that in burning heaer sinking ship
elsewhere, when the real nature of man
The second great moving force in mankind the PATER
NAL INSTINCT the instinct of reproduction This
that there shall be other human beings earth follow each
generation it In the savage brutal man the in
stnct of reproduction the strongest next to the instinct of
The third great passion of the human mind is AMBITION
desire for change for impro vement
As have told You before and shall often repeat the
snct MISREPRESENTATION keeps us on this earth the
MSTC PT9dGs others to eaEy On our wor
ABOUT PROGRESS
The friend whose letter quote is of many that
whether ambition really worth while what of ambition
ought to have,
dSregarded IF
YOU'VE GOT IT. It's like the measles, and it doesn make
difference whether it is worth while mott must its
Every being has ambition youth The young man
woman without ambition is a creature almost mthinkabe
AS advance in years however forces diminish in in
ensor we nave not yet reached the real stage OF develop
men which will bring about constant increase of intellectual force
and interest, least for the first hundred years of life
attacked and devoured by just such questions friend puts
in his letter.
The stomach says why not feed well and enjoy my
digestive delights instead of wasting energies trying do
+boOyn lCpf
Vanity says: Why you give up your foolish ideas of
duty Pile dollar another dress we'll cultivate the good
die fat and happy
The mind of repeated failures wants rest and
Every little opportunity life every little comfort fights
against mans ambition if his ambition be really high
dreams of eighteen and twenty.
At forty he has settled down into little means no
growth
At fifty he has reached stage whore he looks pyiugy
down upon the men VINO possess the ambitious force that he has
lost and that he now calls foolish dream'ngs'
friend anyhow after they are dead what differ
does make whether they prominent or rstics
In our opinion makes great deal of difference can
no be possible that the selconscous soul doing the
wisdom the of this globe should peShahc
i is not behevable that in universe where know
MATTER and FORCE to be mdestncbe the one thing be de
human soul which has within itself power to apply and 10
distribute the force and the matter attached this globe
The soul MUST be immortal for through the govern
men of the universe justice and kindness 1t is NOT be-
evahe that should be allowed as they have sf
fered without recompenSe hereafter It beevabe espec
tally that the passionate desire for immortality should placed
we are immoraj-and we MUST be-there is sreI, re-
ward Tor the soul that trgs The soul IN which ambition per
state must be higher when it leaves this body
Various religions reward deserving men in various WAYS
with happy hunting grounds with weIsocled scraglos with
golden and the home of solid gold precious stones
"'cP seelfa uqrSIg 10 me Prme civilization of the East
raj growth: along the lines of our own desert
But taking the gQome~t possible view of the question that
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