Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-27
Think for Yourself
Don't Be SeriIe Taking Older Men and Other People
at a False Valuation
Copyright 1919

The brain in your result hundreds of
sands years evolution and education this earth
That brain given you that you may DECIDE FOR YOUR
SELF what true what false what important and what
unmportant
About one man in thousand actually uses forming opn-
ions the thinking power the power Of discrimination that
given to him.
The other hundred and ninetynine simply along
old beaten paths others bow low THEY bow low.
Where others look scOrnful, THEY look scOrnful.
Most of think and act like sheep than like
One sheep the head his pretty feeble BRAIN and the others
do what he does.
As result we are ready ideas they
We ready recognize real genius when it appears
And is true to-day it when Emerson wrote that
every bringing the world message worth while is mis-
understood because of stupid for the past and our
dizziness truths.
Pyagoas misunderstood Socrates and Jesus and
Luther and oOpncus and Calico and Newton and
and spirit that took flesh To be great is to be mis-
understood
Naturally beings profit by the discoveries of
those that preceded them We don't throw away the law Of
gravtaton axioms geometry the multiplication table
because they used by before
The trouble with is that hang to prejudces
foolish for vacuy desperately than to the
most important truths given us by science
The thing for you to do young mean men up to
seventy for all ought to be young until then
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 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 opin
ions going round.
This is 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 take difficulties for granted to take opinions for
granted take CONDITIONS for granted They deter
decide things themselves They found ways
they found possibilities they added their names the list
that have done something.
Keep DOUBT in your mind always We give you below
quotation 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 enough appreciate the value original thought
and research he that doubt essential to knowledge
he put it well This is what he said
Doubt is the key Of knowledge. He who 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 L think BECAUSE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT
1T. 1 admire him. BECAUSE 1 HAVE STUDIED HIS LIFE"
Seek and shall find Knock and it shall opened unto
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.