Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-27
Think for Yourself
Don't Be Serue Taking Older Men and Other Peoples Ideas
at False Valuation
Copyright.

The brain in your head the result Of hundreds
sands Of years evolution and education this earth
That brain given you that you may DECIDE FOR YOUR
SELF what what false what is important and what
unimportant
About in thousand actually in forming opin
the thinking power the power of discrimination that
given to him.
The other nine hundred nnetynine simply go along
old beaten paths others bow low THEY bow low
Where others look scOrnful THEY look scOrnful
Most of us think and lire sheep than like
One sheep the head his pretty feeble BRAIN and the others
do what he does.
As result we are not ready for new ideas they
ready recognize real genius when appears
And is to-day it when Emerson wrote, that
every bringing the world message worth while mis-
understood stupid for the past and
duIlness to new truths
Pythagoras was misunderstood and Jesus and
Luther Coperncus Calico and Newton and every
and wise spirit flesh To be great is to be mis-
understood
Naturally human beings profit by the discoveries of
those that preceded them We throw away the law of
ravitaOn axioms in geometry or the multiplication table
because they used by before
The trouble with that hang to prejudices,
foolish for vacu more desperately than TO the
most important truths given by science
The thing for you to do young menwe mean men up to
seventy for all ought to be young until then and even ate
For instance admire only things THAT YOU KNOW
ABOUT. Look up those of whom you KNOW THAT THEY
HAVE REALLY DONE SOMETHING WORTHY OF ADM
RATION
Don't let other people form your opinions for you Don't
accept your opinions ready made like pair Of rubber boots
Make up your mind to know WHY you believe thing,
WHY you look up individual WHY you accept the Opn
ions going round
This important merely to your selfrespec and
manhood BUT TO YOUR POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH, your
possibilities of doing something worth while.
that have succeeded their to the fact that
they refuse take difficulties for granted to take opinions for
granted take CONDITIONS for granted They deter
mined decide things for themselves They found
they found possibilities they added their to the list
that have done something.
Keep DOUBT in your mind always. We give you below
quotation paste up 1t supplied by Bongbroke
wonderful ability almost great mantle individual who
supplied philosophical thought with which Pope seasoned his
poetry.
He knew enough to appreciate the value of original thought
and research he knew that doubt essential to knowledge and
he put it we'll This is what he said:
Doubt the key of knowledge He who never doubts
examines He who examines discovers nothing
He who discovers nothing is blind and will remain so
As long you live DOUBT. Question deny, verify Be
able say, Il think So BECAUSE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT
IT I admire him, BECAUSE HAVE STUDIED HIS LIFE
Seek and We shall find Knock and it shall be opened
yOu."
PROVE all things Hold fast that which is good
These two texts for those that may desire Biblical
ton for mans chief intellectual quality, DOUBT.