Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-28
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interesting twoegged animal in charge of this earth
called wound up complicated fashion Twelve
instincts aractons-name them you please
Of these twelve passions moving forces,
THREE direct and control the other nine
Among MOVING forces there three
that dominatewe will ignore the others for the present
First and most necessary is THE INSTINCT OF SELF
PREsERy ALTON That instinct kept alive forced them to
continue living this earth under horrible conditions of cold
and brutality Natures wisdom the instinct of
this earth do his work here In the of thirty thou
sand years and of today the instinct of sefpeservaOn
elsewhere when the real nature of
The second great moving force in mankind is the PATER
Nal INSTINCT the instinct of reproduction This guarantees
that there shall be other human beings earth follow each
generation passes In the savage brutal man the in
sne of reproduction the strongest next to the instinct of
sef-preservation
The third great passion of the human mind is AMBITION
desire for change, for impro
As we have 6 told You esG and shall often repeat the in
PATERNAL INSTINCT provides Others to carry on our work
after death AMBITION PREVENTS sTAGNATIoX BRINGS
ABOUT PROGRESS.
The friend whose letter quote of many that ask
whether ambition really worth while, what of ambition
ought to have, etc.
The first question may dregarded you have ambition
difference whether it is worth while mott its
Every human being has ambition in youth The Young man
woman without ambition creature almost nhnkabe.
As we advance in years however forces diminish in
tensyor have reached the real develop
which will bring about
and interest at least for the first hundred years of life.
Ambition is the human emotion that dies quickly. 1t
attacked and devoured by just such questions friend puts
The stomach says: "Why feed well and enjoy my
digestive delights instead of wasting trying do
something can do?'
AMI don't vouc foolish ideas of
duty? Pile dollar another dress we'll cultivate
opinion of neighbo be liked and approved by minds
die fat and happy
The mind gets tired of repeated failures wants rest and
begs for it
Every little opportunity life, little comfort fights
against mans ambition, if his ambition be really high
The average at thirty begins already to aside his
dreams of eighteen and twenty.
At forty he has settled down into a little that means no
more growth
At fifty he has reached stage where he looks piyingy
down upon the men who possess the ambitious force that he has
friend Anyhow after they are dead what differ
ence does make whether they prominent rusics?
In our opinion, If makes great deal of difference
not be possible that the econscous soul doing the
coSnc wisdom in the care of this globe should be peshabe
n Mn, IS not 9eheTa6Ie that in universe whore know
royed should be that higher compound force which call the
dsr b fc " ore nna T asr the to apply and "
The soul MUST be immortal for all through govern
ment of the universe Justice and kindness 1t
ered without recompns hereafter 1t beeabe espec-
tally that the passionate desire for immortality should be placed
If we are immorta-and MUST be-there surely a re
ward Tor the soul that tries The soul in which ambition per-
ssS must be higher soul than that which
state must be higher when it leaves this body
Various religions deserving men in various WAYS
with happy hunting grounds with wesocked seraglios
the peaceful nonenty that the ndoo Graves the
golden and the home Of solid precious stones
winch seemed desirable to the primitive civilization of the
Rewarded SHALL be-presumably along lines of natI-
raj growth; along the lines of own desert.
But taking the goomiest possible the question that
asked and assuming that does NOT make any difference to
hereafter whether he did or in on earth we ask in
How about the that seshv the little