Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-07

The young studying now in colleges or in the real world
outside will be the United States of America few years
In Literary Number all articles should have literary
flavor This shall get the favor from quotations
In his chapter statesmen the Philosophical Dictionary
Votaire says not for the statesmen Of his day
who were too busy read him. but for young who would
be be of France later Those who read Voare
when they young made France through the revolution
when they older.
The important thing that young should read little
AND THINK GREAT DEAL
Whatever you do worth while in this world you will
do in your head with the mysterious machine inside of it.
Give that much attention you give your legs
and and rest Of the machine that wins prizes in ath
ec and you will be among the successful contestants in life
battle.
Every is discouraged before Michael
Angelo the greatest artist and of the five greatest in the
world history, is quoted by Emerson thus
all best hopes
world the phano and that to oOnie ones
course"
Michael Angelo having the determination Ito confde in
himself and become something of worth and value could not
fail.
He had his dscouragemen like other young genuses An
associate broke his when he young That
dcouragng Rich who could afford to buy his work did
not have the intelligence its value He initiated the work
of the ancient Greek scupors according Grimm buried his
imitation in the ground dug up when seasoned and sold
it Cardinal antique The Cardinal delighted wanted to
know where he had dug Michael Angelo said he could dig
up many like the Cardinal would buy he had made
himself. The Cardinal, having sense, helped him.
PRACTICE THINKING That is man only important bust
animal changed into he gradually
substituted thought for the of teeth and claws.
And your thinking let this be the big question What
fit for? What better than other things better per
haps than others could do ito
has aptitude to
bic other Do work. have this often but Nature
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of ANY Il him
Find what you CAN do what you OUGHT to do Do
in your way simply. Simplicity the quality that makes
Bunyan-simp earnest ignorant manoutlve thousands bril-
liant and learned.
Spend much of your time THINKING Man should THINK
HIS WAY through book The thinking should be ten times
greater than the reading The trouble with many young
the reading the thinking Chew your reading slowly
as you chew your meat.
The highest problem for thoughtful suggested in
these lines from Pascals Thoughts"
finally, what nature2 A nothing
Infinitely far from understanding the extremes the end of things and the
them nvineiby hidden
equally incapable the nothing whence
n which $ enguled"
There is really great question: WHAT is MAN IN
NATURE?"
Wallace who shared with Darwin the glory of announcing
the theory evolution and who died only the day
eved that man alone thinking being the universe He
thought that little world rolling along somewhere in the
middle of the Milky Way big compared with its neghbors
space as grain sand compared to the Rocky Mountains was
the only planet inhabited by thinking beings,
If men know anything after they die Wallace probably
knows by this time that his silly thought
What in nature, and what is OUTSIDE of
nature outside of that which feel and know with
Imagine tiny microbe standing at the bottom of fight
of stone steps each step thousand miles high the steps
ing up endless millions of miles
The staircase is eternity You the microbe.
Think about that.