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

The brain in your head is result of thou
sands of years of evolution and education this earth
That brain given you that you may DECIDE FOR YOUR
SELF what what false what important and what is
unimportant.
About one man in a thousand actually in forming opn-
IONS the thinking power the power of discrimination that is
given to him.
The other nine hundred and nnetynne simply go along
old beaten paths Where bow low THEY bow low.
Where others look soornful THEY look sCOrnfu.
Most of think and act more like sheep than like men,
One sheep the head his pretty feeble BRAIN and the others
do what he does
As result ready for ideas when they
We ready recognize real genius when it
And it is true to-day it when Emerson wrote that
every man bringing world message worth while mis-
stupid for the past and
dizziness to new truths
Pyhagoras was misunderstood and Jesus and
Coperncus and Calico and Newton and every
and wise spirit flesh To be great to be mis-
understood.
Naturally human beings profit by the discoveries of
those preceded them We don't throw away the law of
gavitaon in geometry, the multiplication table
because they used by before
The trouble with that hang to prejudices
our foolish reverence for vacuty desperately than
most important truths given us by science
The thing for you to do young menwe mean men up to
seventy for all ought be young until then and aers
to KNOW WHY You THINK AS YOU DO THINK.
For instance, admire only things THAT YOU KNOW
ABOUT Look up to those of whom you KNOW THAT THEY
HAVE REALLY DONE SOMETHING WORTHY OF ADM
RATION
Don't other people your opinions for you Don't
accept your opinions ready 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 your selfrespect and
manhood BUT TO YOUR POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH, your
possibilities of doing something worth while
Men 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 the list
that have done something.
Keep DOUBT in your mind always We give you below
quotation to paste up 1t supplied by Bongbroke
of wonderful ability almost great mantle individual who
supplied the philosophical thought with which Pope seasoned his
poetry
He knew enough appreciate the value of original thought
and research he knew that doubt essential knowledge
he put it well. This is what he said:
Doubt is 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
able say II think So BECAUSE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT
IT I admire him. BECAUSE HAVE STUDIED HIS LIFE"
Seek and shall find Knock and it shall be opened
you
PROVE all things, Hold fast that which is good"
These two texts for those that desire Biblical
ton for mans chief intellectual quality, DOUBT.