Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28

The letter that follows read by millions of people And
majority Of might write the same kind of letter
Dear ST. have been reading your
sy are S 1 Sa a anything d. look back these
years do different seems SO hard wish
YOU attempts to completion
II you don't mention Yours truly w NJ
There difficulty old human beings and older 1t is
old as thought.
Who can do what this wants to dO9
Who can tell US how complete anything9"
You who many resolutions have taken and
broken? many plans have formed and abandonedP How
many tasks have you started and left behind7
Sometimes good thing for the who struggling to
know that others have his difficulty and his troubles
That why it lucky that who have accomplished
snaA thnsS have written frankly of their the
autobiography Of Rousseau unpleasant and revolving as it u.s. may
hsve encouraged hundreds Of housandsfor shows that
CAN suOCeed, in spite of the greatest defects
may encourage this young writes know that the
curse which he feels weighing him has been overcome by
many Of the successful men only after long struggle
Our brain say the spirit thinking which
works through BRAIN must work for generations to with
. very defective instrument
only recently risen above the plane Of animal life
hundred thousand years ago all bowling muderou
nbas savsges And hundred and fifty thousand
there only few Of this eartand actually
animals with huge teeth and jaws with the fainte signs of hui
mainly about
We had big muscles big bones big appettes great vOrac
FEEBLE BRAINS AND FEEBLE NTELLECTs.
And we still have brains and feeble ntellects.
of physical impulses stronger than mental
To rest to sleep eat indulge attractions
have within is the inheritance that get from millions
Of years animal life back Of is difficult thing to teach
the brain in its nfancy-To CONTROL THAT LONG He
REDITY OF ANIMAL LIFE
Emile zola the Frenchman wrote Every within
him hog asleep may be literally of every
certain that every has within him various animals
very much awake Every has in him something of the
keyand monkey sticks anything if he avoid it,
Of the various animal forms through
which have passed during the millions Of that stretch
behind
And all Of these are constantly working the
vy Of that recently acquired power THE FACULTY OF
THOUGHT.
Every man has big fight world only big fight
and that is the fight AGAINST HIMSELF.
To win problem of the young whose
letter print.
Many says bitterly this says, II finish
anything And great many of down into the
ing at the last, IT completed anything"
But least TRY and to try and to keep try
ing, even up the last, is TO COMPLETE SOMETHING.
An effort will itself complete thing although the
bigger task may not be accomplished.
It u.s. perhaps while form the habit If of
limiting plans schemes keeping minds on of
things until have finished That advice good
at first have been those that changed
first to thing then to another then another AND ULT
MATELY DID SOME ONE THING BIG.
problem for each of to work out inside the round
temple of ivory the bOny skull in which our brain
lives Each man minutes his hour of solitary
thought criticism day week and try
force himself to his task
Everything effort of the WILL from getting the
morning to going to bed at night
all bound in by little limitations, We make lit
tie hole here then little hole the other side and then lit
tie hole on another sde-and get nowhere.
Only in while breaks through the limitations
and S able say, Il did something
Archimede when he jumped out of the bath
naked through the street shouting out his great dis
covy concerning the specific gravity of gold and other sub
stances.
Such Michael Angelo, when he looked his fin
ished work in the Sistine Chapel
Such Newton he finished the calculations that
prove the truth of his theory Of gravitation
There have been other such and there will
And the bgges Of them is really BIGGER