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

thing and FINlSH IT,
that follows will be read by millions of people And
a majority might write the kind Of letter
Dear and think
helpful young "a years od have one big
fault that Is that never complete onyhnE DO look back these few
With regret now When try do different It seems hard wish
oud write editorial on doing what one attempts to
There difficulty old human beings and older It is
as old thought
VINO can tell what this wants to do2
Who can tell how complete anythng7"
who read this how many resolutions have taken and
bro7 many plans you formed and abandOnedP How
mUy taaks have you started and left behind7
Sometimes it ia good thing for the who is struggling to
know that Others his difficulty and his troubles.
ThsH3s why is lucky that who have accomplished
great things frankly their weaknesses Even the
autobiography unpleasant and revolving is may
encouraged hundreds Of housandsOr shows that
DAN succeed, in spite of the greatest defects
msy encourage this young man
curse which he feels weighing upon him has been by
many Of successful only after long struggle
BRAIN say the spirit thinking power which
through the BRAIN must work for generations with
. very defective instrument.
have only recently risen above the plane Of animal life
hundred thousand years ago bowling murderous
nac savages And hundred and fifty thousand years ago
there only few Of this srthand actually
animals with huge teeth and jaws with the fantest signs of hui
maniy about
had big muscles big bones big appee great voracty
FEEBLE BRAINS AND FEEBLE NTELLECTs.
And we still have feeble brains and feeble intelects
All of physical impulses stronger than mental
intellects
To rest to sleep to eat indulge various attractions we
within us-suCh is the inheritance that get from millions
years animal life back Of It difficult thing to teach
the brain in its inancyTo CONTROL THAT LONG HE
REDITY OF ANIMAL LIFE
Emile Zos the FrenChmsn wrote, Every within
him hog asleep That may not be literally true of every
But is certain that every has within him various animals
very awake Every in him something of the
key-snd tho monkey sticks at anything he avoid
We all contain remnants Of the various animal forms through
And all of these constantly working the
tv4y Of that recently acquired power THE FACULTY OF
THOUGHT
Every big fight in this world and only big fight
and that the fight AGAINST HIMSELF
win that solve the problem of the young whose
letter print
Many man says bitterly this says never finish
snyhg And great many Of go down into the grave
ing at the last II completed anything"
But at least we can TRY try keep try
ing even up to the last is COMPLETE SOMETHING.
An effort of the will in itself complete thing although the
bigger task may not be accomplished.
1t is perhaps worth while to form the habit we can of
limiting plans and schemes of keeping minds of of
other things finished That advice good
the best been those that changed
first thing then another then another AND
MATELY DID SOME ONE THING BIG
II is problem each of work round
walls OF that temple of ivory the bony skull in which brain
take his five minutes his hour Of solitary
thought and earnest criticism day week and try
to force himself o his
Everything effort of the will, from getting up
morning to going TO bed at night.
We all bound in by little limitations We make
then little hole the other side then
tie hole another sde-and get nowhere.
Only in while breaks through the limitations
and is able say I did something.
Such a Archimedes waen he jumped of
tub naked through the shouting his great
covey concerning the specific gravity gold
stances
Such Michael Angelo when lie looked on his fin
lshed work the Sistine Chapel
Such Newton the calculations that
prove the truth of his theory gravtation
there will he MANY moro