The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-14
Uncle Daue's
Letter

GSeiy pcfSOu HAS his OWu luClVl-
duality. There are no human dupli-
Gates. Watches in Switzerland have
long been made by hand. One man
makes all the parts of cne wa.oh.
Each part is made for some spCc!u.
watch. In America our watches are
factory made. One man makes some
email part and does nothing else. All
watches are exactly alike; thG. iG
those OF the same make and pattern.
Any one part OF certain type of
watch will fit any other watch of that
pattern. The parts are interchange
able, seed docs not make men on that
principle. Each man has hiE own
distinct cuTvc-his own individuality.
The failIrd 10 recognize this fact by
unwisc parents results in their att
tempt to make their children dupH-
Gates o. themselves. Emerson. In
talking to parents OIL this very mat
ter, said: ..The trouble is you arc try
ing to make another you, cne of you
is enough" God iE Us prodigal In the
creation Of differing human units as
he Is in creating the vast and all but
infinite varieties in plants and aniu'
mails. Indeed, He never even grows
two blades OF grass alike, and tho very
sands Of tho Eou9hore differ. each from
thS OlhSA. VIC tC1O6hi[C lliat We
are we, and can be no one clse.f You
must know your own bent and follow
it. Failures In life are due to mis-
fitG. am aware that 1t is not always
easy for one to discover his own bent.
Some OF the greatest successes have
at first been failures. Emerson made
mot Indifferent preacher, and
would never have been heard from, had
he remained II the pulpit. As aphil-
osophor he came to power. All the
Preceding years were all but wasted.
Phillips Brooks was O fiat failure as
teacher. He heard the voice OF Gol
calling him into the pulpit and then
he won inmCrtal renown. There arr
others who early discovered them
Ceives. Liszt played In public at 12.
Bacon was but 16 when lie exposed the
fallacy Of the Aristotelian philosophy
and gave to the world new and COR
rect method Of reasoning. When one
discovers his own individuality and Is
true to 1t tsen there comes great ease
In the doing of the. thing. Then,
too: there is real Joy In the doing of
the task. And there is also. sure to
fOllow true and laBting, success. No
wonder man cucceeds when he does
1t easily and like his job. Young man
learn early to depend upon your
self. Once father brought his son
to Lord Thurlow that the great man
might give him some good advice. as
to the training of his SON for the
law. Thurlay snid: "Give now to your
son all the money he could inherit at
your death and let him spend It. Then
let him marry some silly rich girl and
run through with her fortune. Then
when he comes down to his last shil-
ling, maybe he will turn in and do
something ut the law That was fine
counsel, for what he meant was your
son Will never amount to anything so
long as he depends upon any one. but
himself for. q living sShoW ne the
son Of rich man who succeeds andtI
will. take of my hat to him. i, Ono: does
not need to live long or observe very
widely to discover the philosophy in
what I have just been writing HUI
man nature t.. such that it .is not
prone to do the unnecessary thing.
Remove frt3n-a boy the necessity to
toll in any field Of endeavor. and he
Will bo very apt to be AN idIer and;
drOne in life's hive. When John c.,
Calhoun was in college one night.
while bending over his table in earn
est study. a, group OF classmates.
poured into thereon and seated thetls
serves In comfortable places > and
started in for an evening OF lazy so-
ciability. Calhoun paid no attention,
to them. but kept his eyes on his study,
One said. ,:oome john quit your study
light your pipe and have a. SOCIAL;
smoke. 81 You are working too hard.
Your eyes show it." His only answer
was, "Get out, fellows. I did mot. send
for You. I dmf busy" But, another
said. "Qh, John, you arc a fool. You
are killing yourself with study" But
his answer. was, 81 have to work
hard" No. you don't John ]; no hard-
er than the rest of.us.- You expect to
graduate with us In June.. What is
the use or killing yourself. Come.
light up and have a smoke and sb-
cial evening"" ''oh. get out" said Cal.
houn. Iishave to get ready" rGett
ready for what? i,+sWeli, II you want,
to know ttl4tell you.s Get ready for