Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-28
A reader sends in this letter. which we answer:
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reader sends in this letter which
happier ps more a1es; gGg s9 % b he 8 8 s ana station 1
his birth? we are told man 2ua n@ t3g Of P ara bS
chose TO be poor and aPkoTn & aef they Are e T r
world instead The
That interesting twolegged animal in charge of this earth
called is wound up a complicated fashion Twelve pas
instincts attractions them please
Of these twelve passions NINE are actual moving forces
THREE direct and control the other nine
that dominatewe win ignore the others for the present
First, and most necessary is THE INSTINCT OF SELF
PRESERVA That instinct kept alive forced them to
continue living this earth under horrible conditions of cold
and brutality wisdom made the instinct of
do his work here In the of thirty thou
sand years and of today the instinct of self preservation
anPowerfu You see that IN burning heate sinking ship
elsewhere, when the real nature of
The second great moving force in mankind is the PATER
that there shall be other human beings earth follow each
generation as passes away IN te savage orua man the IN
snct of reproduction the strongest next to the instinct of
The third great passion of the human mind is AMBITION
desire for change, for mprov
AS have told you before and shall often repeat the in
snct of SELF PRESERV ALTON keeps this earth the
PATERNAL INSTINCT provides others carry work
after death AMBITION PREVENTS STAGNATION, BRINGS
ABOUT PROGRESS
The friend whose letter quote one of many that
whether ambition is really while of
ought to have etc
question may dscgarded II you have ambition
YOU'VE GOT TT. It's like the
difference whether 1t worth while mott must It's
Every human being has ambition in youth The young man
without ambition almost unthinkabe
AS advance in years however forces diminish
ensfor have not yet reached the real stage develop
which will bring about of Intellectual
and interest at least for the first hundred years of life
Ambition is the human emotion that dies most quickly It
attacked and devured by just such questions friend
in his letter.
The stomach says "wby not feed me well and enjoy my
digestive delights instead wasting your energies trying to do
something you can dor
Vanity says. why don't you give up your foolish ideas of
duy9 Pile dollar another dress we'll good
opinion Of neghbors be liked and approved by little minds
die fat and happy
The mind gets tired of repeated failures it wants rest and
begs for it
Every little opportunity in fife every little comfort fights
against mans ambition if his ambition be really high
The average man at thirty begins already to aside his
At forty he has settled down into little that no
growth
At fifty he has reached where he looks pyingv
down upon the men who the ambitious force that he has
lost and that he now calls foolish dreanlings"
Our friend asks Anyhow, after they what differ
ence does it make whether they were prominent ruscs
be possible that the doing the work of
cosnc wisdom in the of this globe should be peshabe
NATTER and FORCE to be ndesructbe thing be de
sOyed should be that higher compound which we call the
human soul which has within itself the power apply
distribute the force and the attached globe
The soul MUST be immortal for all through the govern
evabe that should be allowed they have su
fered without recompense hereafter 1t beeyabe epec-
ay that the passionate desire for immortality should be placed
IN men only to be disappointed
If immorai-and we MUST be-there is surely re
ward for the soul that The soul which ambition per
sss must be higher soul than that which gives and its
state must be higher when it leaves this body
Various religions deserving men in yarous WAYS
with happy hunting grounds with welsocked eragos with
the peaceful nonenty that the ndoo Graves with the
Rewarded we Sir All he tI i r ol 'nS EAST
raj growth; along the lines of desert.
But taking the gloomc possible view Of the question that
Is asked and assuming that does NOT make any difference