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

The young men studying colleges the real world
outside will be the United States of America in few
In "A Literary Number all articles should have literary
flavor This one get the flavor from quotations.
In his chapter statesmen in the Philosophical Dictionary
says that he wrote not for the statesmen of his day
busy read him. but for young who would
be be of France later Those who read Voltar
they young made France through the revolution
when they older
The important thing is that young should read little
AND. THINK A GREAT DEAL.
Whatever you do while in this world you will
do in your head with the mysterious machine inside of it.
Give that head much attention you give to your legs
and arms the machine that wins prizes in ath
ecs you will among the successful contestants in fe
battle
Every man discouraged before Michael
Angelo the greatest artist and of the five greatest in the
worlds history is quoted by Emerson thus:
ppoltO, best hopes
world for the most part vain phantoms and that to Onf ones
self and become something of worth and value the best and safest
Michael Angelo having the determination ito COnhde in
himself and become something of worth and value could not
fail
He had his discouragements like other young geniues An
associate broke his when he young That
dscouragng Rich who could afford to buy his work did
not have the intelligence its value He initiated the work
of the ancient Greek upors according to Grimm buried his
imitation in the ground dug when seasoned and sold
it to 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 had made it
himself, The Cardinal having sense helped him.
PRACTICE THINKING That is man S only important bust
Our animal ancestor changed into he gradually
substituted thought for the of teeth and claws.
And in your thinking let this be the big question What
fit for? What do better than other things better per
haps than others could do t?'
Zach aptitude
bic other have
ofener thought
who speaks that which he created Nothing
than of his Any work looks wonderful to him
that which he do"-Emerson.
Find out what you CAN do what you OUGHT to do Do it
in your way simply. Simplicity is the quality that
Bunyan earnest ignorant man-outve thousands bril-
liant and learned.
Spend much of your time THINKING Man should THINK
HIS WAY through book The thinking should be
greater than the reading The trouble with many young
that the reading exceeds the thinking Chew your reading slowly
you chew your meat
The highest problem for thoughtful suggested in
these lines from Pascas Thoughts"
For finally, what nature? A nothing
nothing, nothing ALL
them nvnoby
equally incapable Of the nothing whence
There really one great question: WHAT is MAN IN
NATURE?"
Wallace who shared Darwin the glory of announcing
the theory of evolution and who died only the other day.
eved that 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 grain Of sand compared the Rocky Mountains
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 is in nature and what man OUTSIDE of
little minds?
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 are the mcrObe
Think about that,