Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-10

No one knows too much.
| Most of us feel the weight of our
self-imposed limitations, especially in
view of the possibilities.
The transcendent genius of all lit
erature has said: Ignorance is the
curse of God; knowledge the wing
wherewith we fly to heaven
Carlyle says that one of the great
est events "is the arrival of a thinker
in the world" One of the Latin writ
ers remarked: Heavens! what thick
darkness pervades the minds OF men,
| Most people waste too much time.
As we have but one trip to make
through this vale of tears" if we
! frittcr away our time we are thus real
| ly shortening our lives.
Many people are mentally lazy. and
will not do the work which would re-
suit, to high degree. in their own
benefit and happiness. Work is the
law of our race; idleness is crime
against it. In pronouncing his curse
upon Adam and the human race the
Almighty said: ''In the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread" Sophocles
very justly remarked: Without labor
nothing prospers.' Another OF the an
give nothing to man without world
OF toll" Pope hit the nail on the
head when he said: Mind is strength
encd by exercise. not rest Disraeli
makes this statement: Literature is
an avenue to glory. g. Time. the
great destroyer of other mems happi-
ness, only enlarges the patrimony OF
literature to its possessor."
1t has been well said that ''man is
the only animal that can know the
past" He is therefore the only one
capable of Improvement.
| have frequently stated that OF all
that human genius has accomplished.
no other triumph is in any sense COM
mensurate to that OF printing. There
is in the art OF mechanics small in
strument known as ratchet" which
allows the wheel to move forward but
prevents the slightest jot of retro
ression The use of type accomplish
es the same tking in the intellectual
world. 1t conserves and tenders free-
ly to every contemporary, and to ev-
cry future man and age. all noble
thoughts. worthy sentiments and val
liable discoveries. evolved by the brain
of the race. and all substantial facts
of human experience and natural oc-
currences We may use or reject this
treasure at our option. We are thus
enabled to take intellectual Journeys
across the oceans and continents Of
duration to strike hands with the
heroes and martyrs the philosophers
land sagcs of all the past, thus thou
sand times magnifying the scope Of
our mental vision and saving us from
I intellectual childhood. which would
would cnvelop one throughout the
longest life were he denied access to
the experience of the past. and linn
tied to hearsay and the things of his
own observation.
John Ruskin says that by the use
OF books you may be talking with the
intellectual kings and queens OF the
world. That your library keeps this
eternal court opc nto you. with its
society wide as the world. multitudin-
Gus as its days. the chosen and the
mighty of every place and time Ow-
ing to these enlorgcd possibilities the
past rises before. us and in spirit we
may bee ONE actors in its events. look
ing on at the triumphs and tragedies
of history, participating in the glory
and goodness of great souls and
shrinking from the littlencss and de-
pravity OF others.
The scriptural statement that there
is nothing new under the sun is to be
taken in qualified sense. Many
ideas that we hear, have been thought
out and expressed long before. Som,
OF our common expressions, instead
of being of recent origin. date back al
most to the dawn of history. For in-
stance. the statement that early rising
makes one healthy. wealthy and
wise" comes from Aristotle. who was
born .sS4 years before Christ. He is
also the author OF that common ex-
preston that "one swallow does not
make a spring" Homer says: There
he met with Sleep. twin-born with
Death" We find the same idea in the
opening lines OF Shelley's Queen
Nab where he says: ''How wonder
full is Death. Death and his brother.
Sleep"
When Jefferson. in our Declaration
of Independence. said that govern
ments may be established by the peo-
pie in such form "as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness, he merely paraphras-
ed the words of Algernon Sidney.
spoken on the scaffold in 1888 when
about to be executed for opposing the
tyranny of Chahles II. He said: And
| am persuaded to believe that God
has left nations unto the liberty of
setting up such governments as best
please themselves" That most elo-
quent and remarkable passage and eli
max in the speech OF Caleb Cushing.
defending John Quincy Adams in the
House OF Representatives. is no more
and no less than an elaboration OF
what was said by Hamilton more than
= so years before.
Kipling says: Thus the artless7So
Kipling says;
Thus the artless songs ! sing.
Do not deal with anything
| New. or never said before"
Again he says:
''When 'Omer smote is bloomin' Tyre,
ED card men sing by land an sea;
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