The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-10-30
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FREEDOM OF THE MIND
The Greatest Essential to Success
and Happiness

ana HdppineSS
Salvation through slavery is worth
| ASSASSINATION from slavery is every
thing" declared one of the greatest
American writer's and lecturers. He
was speaking of that mental condition
of man which makes him slave to a
dogma, or creed, or social condition,
dealing always entirely with an I'M
known and wholly speculative future.
Further along, on the same subject,
he declared: 1--WE are not endeavor-
ing to chain the future, but to free the
present" and again: while super
stition builds walls and creates OBJ
structions, science opens all the high
ways of thought" What a beautiful
picture, the consummation of which
would usher in an ideal millennium.
Nearly half a century ago we abol-
ished physical slavery by executive
order. The best evidence that the
subsconscious knew the whole system
was wrong is the fact that all open
advocacy or actual practice of slavery
forthwith disappeared from the face
of the land. But the conflict for men,
tai slavery is more fierce today than
at any time in the worlds history.
The best evidence that it is not right
is the fact, everywhere evident, that
people refuse to be governed by
legislative enactment in behalf of
such monstrous thing.
The habits of men, and customs of
society, are but the universal har-
vests of the human mind-its earlier
cravings and its matured desires. For.
as We sow We shall reap. 1t follows,
therefore, that if you would change
the harvest, you must give attention
to the sowing-and no man has ever
sown strife, and reaped that peace
peace which passeth understanding.
Put that sorrow in your culver and
pierce through with it the next man
who tries to becloud your mind with
the belief you can and it is your
christian duty to make (instead of
pursuade) other men to think and act
as you do,
You can direct kindness and rea-
son, but you cannot control the hum
an mind, without enslaving it. And
the moment it becomes enslaved it
becomes inactive-a peon to some
master mind. Search the mould
ing archives of the ancients, ex-
anime upon the witness stand the his
torians of the present, and there is
but one testimony. A nation NAV
prosper under the government of I'M
Delivers. If the Investigation of opin-
ion be broad enough, but under the
slavery of centralized thought it goes
out of existence and fades from the
memory of mankind.
Nature, is our greatest teacher. did
we but read its open book. All that
ever was, that is, or ever will be, has
Its place in the plan of nature. The
springtime follows winter. The sun
shine comes after rain. But those
beautiful conditions cannot remain
with us always, without destroyins
life. A seed, an atom no larger thar
a pin head, falls into the foulest dunn
heap of rotting matter. Does it de
cay with its surroundings? No
much, gathering unto itself the free
ing substances of life from decayins
matters, it bursts forth healthy anC
vigorous plant. Sow the seed O.
righteous ambition in the foulest hu
man mind and it will do the same
thlng. But don't try to force spontan
eous growth by encasing the seed in ;
sealed iron container when you SOW
II. IL you do it will probably never
germlnate, or if it finally breaks
through the casing it will be dwarfed
he who thus breaks the pinions of DOS
sloIe boundless human achievement
is no less a murderer than the skullx
ing assassin. The first certainly
SENDS mental deficient struggling
through life against uncomfortable
oods' while the other may have ended
only a precarious existence.