Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-06-19

as indelibly written in the substance
of the earth itself proves civilization
to be an intermittent and recurrent
phenomena. Nations rise, bloom and
decay because with the accumulation
cessity decreases and the individual
citizen. ceasing to strive. relaxes and
becomes soft or prematurely senile-
even neurasthenic, II you please.
When weary it is very easy and very
pleasant to relax and sink into that
delightfully."- dreamy state; but here
lies the danger, for it is in that state
one SO readily become introspective
and by imperceptible stages drifts
into self-sympathy and self-pity and
quickly becomes self-conscious and
self-centered.
A self-centered mind is like root
bound plant: unless the roots are
shaken out and freed SO they may con-
tinuously reach out into new soil that
plant will surely sicken and die. Smash
the pot and the roots will shoot out
into new soil and the plant will grow
and thrive. Just SO the self-centered
mind must break out of its shell of
self and forget itself in working. fight
ing. striving for something worth
while.
The lowest forms of life merely
sprawl and feed. A baby sprawls and
feeds too; but with the first dawn of
intelligence begins a struggle and
fight to a definite end-the attainment
of knowledge through experiences
fight that never ceases. and that never
fails to react in personal development
either, SO long as that wonderfully eff
cient driving power. interest. Is main
tanned. The trouble with most OF US
larger children is that we are not
really interested in anything. We re-
lax and demand to be amused; we
sprawl intellectually and feed on
sensuous excitement; such ideas as
current events incite are vague, diff
fuse, thin and weak-they do not grip
US. That is why comparatively few OF
us ever think in the true sense of the
term, and that is why like little chill
dren we must again learn to use our
powers IL we would be well.
fear and this is why self-contempla-
ton is dangerous. There are many
store rooms in the basement of man s
consciousness, commonly known as
the sub-conscious mind. and in these
dark and forgotten corners many
strange things are stored, only walt
ing for the opportunity when they
may come forth to puzzle and con-
found us.
There is nothing mysterious or ter
rible about the subconscious phenom-
ena If, with a full knowledge of the
laws of the universe, of which we are
a part. we frankly consider ourselves
a link in the chain of life extending
from an incomprehensibly remote past
to an equally incomprehensible and re-
mote future.
We deem It not at all strange, mere
ly because we happen to be familiar
with the fact, that there are handed
down to us strong memories out of the
remote past In the form of striking re-
semblances to a grandparent, or to
a great-grandparent. or to one even
still more remote. All inherited traits
are but cell memories; then why
strange or mysterious that there should
be handed down to us in the same way
and from the same source out OF that
misty past, dim memories, vague and
nebular. but none the less memories.
of past long left behind in the ad-
yancing consciousness of the race?
In these latent impressions will be
found the key to the very pitiful truth
that the dominant impression in the
mind of man is that of fear. and that
this is undoubtedly the source OF those
so-called causeless terrors of early
childhood coming at a period before
terror should be known, and in later
years coming to us SO furtively in the
night and in all weakened conditions
due to illness, to sudden surprise, or
to relaxation from any cause, fear
impossible to overcome by any reason
ing because it was burned into our
sympathetic nervous systems back in
the past when devils lurked behind
every leaf and man was in constant
terror of the unknown.
With the dawn of a more intelligent
comprehension of the universe there
has come an appreciation that natures
movements are SO vast and contain SO
many complex and never to be under
stood forces that balance and counter
balance each other. that ones confi-
dence in ones self is always in inverse
proportion to ones knowledge of the
laws involved. Hence, the most intel
lisent physician uses the least medi-
zine because he realizes more keenly
han any one else the complexity OF
tbe phenomena with which he has to
deal and the extent to which conclu-
sions are likely to be vitiated by un-
known factors in the problem. And
TODAY. throughout the world, the issue