The Washington herald., 1912-06-09

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that Of sympathetic enthusiasm.
OF the sort man has when he Is
newly and quickly interested. In this case
the one speaking was an employer looking
for a man of high attainments similar to
those possessed by the man with whom he
had Just closed business interview II had
ended indefinitely for the candidate, who now
remarked socially and casually that he be-
Heved they Two were natives of the same
state He had disdsIned to use this fact to
gain a business advantage.
It happened that not only were the two
men natives Of the same state but they were
born IN adjoining towns In that state, and the
result Of the talk that followed the casual
remark and invitation to remain was that
LIST Of waiting candidates outside were dis
missed. The position was filed by the man
who little while before had been leaving the
place in discouragement.
Social circumstances in life and business,
arouslng quick sympathies, are ever drawing
men and women together on the same pFinci-
pie as that embodied in the saying that blood
Is thicker than water. Fellow townsmen
have far more interest one for another than
for people OF other towns and states.
The highly sophisticated may disregard
such bonds, for sophisticatiou often means
in some degree dehumanization-lessQ quick
and warm sympathies-but for the general
run Of people home folks - take precedence
over all others.
Mr. 7. SharperTKnowlson, in " The Art OF
Thinking" says IN a study Of prejudiees-
prejudices in favor are sympathies-" There
is a prejudice Of birth and nationality. Edu-
cation is said to raise man above such vul-
Earity as this No doubt It does, but ones
home and kindred IS a fact the influence OF
which no education can wholly eliminate.
Max O'Reu says that the Frenchman piaes
all foreIgners and what foreigners some
times think Of Frenchmen II Is hardly polite
to mention Such prejudlces warp the tuds-
rnent. vet. to give them scant credit. they
have had some place IN making the world 90
round. 80
Charles Lamb an Exception.
Charles Lamb in his inimitable way in his
essay on Imperfect sympathies." naIvely
confesses that he feels the differences OF
mankind. national and individual, to an
unhealthy excess. He sets himself in op-
position to the author OF an old book who
said: - am Of a constitution so general
that It sympathizes with all things: have
no antipathy, or rather, idiosyncrasy. In
anything Those national repugnances do
not touch me- nor do I behold with prejudice
the French. Italian. Spaniard. or Dutch"
But with Lamb It was different What
ever is he says, "is q matter OF taste or
dlstaste." He confesses to being the veriest
thraIl to sympathies, spathies. antipa-
thles." He cannot feel toward all equal.
He cannot like all people alike
The gentle Ella was not exceptional In this,
vet his essay is something Of a remonstrance
against an increased assimilation OF peoples
whom ancient and violent prejudiees long
separated by impassa Bile barriers. Who could
expect Englishman and Scotchman to frat-
ernize before the days when commercial
conditions forced them TO do so? The forays
Of the border and yet more determined vio-
lences had been fostering the hatreds be-
tween the two for long centuries
Lamb says: Il have been trying all my
life to like scotchmen. and am obliged t.
desist from the experiment in despair. They
cannot Ike me-and In truth. never knew
one Of that nation who attempted to DO it,
He has no dIsrespect for the Jews. "a piece
OF stubborn antiquity but he does not rel
Ish the fashionable approximation OF Jew
and Christian. d" He 1.-THE JewI is least dis
tasteful on change, for the mercantile spirit
levels all distinctions, as all are beauties N
the dark He has yearnings Of tenderness
toward the negroes-loves certain things IN
them-but he cannot share his meals with
them. He loves Quaker ways and Quaker
but he cannot live with this people.
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No Caste in Business.
In doing the business OF the world all caste.
race, and national prejudice must IN large
measure be forgotten open doors" opened
but reluctantly. cannot be shut All sorts OF
personal national and race prejudices still
exist. but the world is far more tolerant.
generous and even universally sympathetic
than OF old. Men must be tolerant generous.
sympathetic If they would keep pace with
their time and kind.
Antipathies were formerly so unrestrained
that two men meeting who had never seen
each other before in their lives Immediately
fell 10 fighting like TWO dogs, the antipathIes
OF which animals, by the way. have not less
ened with the wearing OF broadcloth sur
touts and the requirement OF large toilet
outfits Dogs will be dogs, but men are
ca pabls Of social gains. State and nation
could not have come into being otherwise.
md the great public utilities Of our modern
time could not have been dreamed OF.
Yet even today there may be individuals
20 born and ''consteIlated so opposite to an
,ther in individual nature that the same
yphsrs cannot hold them" Between man
md man there may be the greatest antipa-
.hies, though neither one can show any lust
-eason why he dIslIkes the other. there has
,een no wrong pr injury, he can accuse him
II no Ill will Or oIenSs IN face or person
Atty, yet notwithstanding hates him as a
ieyl' as did the Spaniard who assassinated
he king Of his country and could give no
,sason fbr doing 80 save that he hated him
It sight
Diplomacy alone, II no noblsr reason. keeps
men today from showing their violent
iatreds A man may even cherish them and
ucceed, outwardly. for there is, It must be
a sort OF energy in hate that
Ike any other energy, is propulsive, yet
Imost invariably you will ind that such q
mans private life Is most melancholy and
esoIate He has not bound friends 10 him
elf with steel RIBS Of sympathy. II Is wen
nough to say be just before you are gen.
rous, and such men may be Just 10 the
sitter. but II IS sympathetic, hearty generoS-
ty that binds.
Unsympathetic Men Unnatural.
One Of the seventeenth century philoso-