The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-29
~ On. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)


No. Mrs. Bonebrake, l am not goin|
to try your religious fad in order to hes
my sore feet; no, Mrs. Hardscrabble,
wiR not use your number rigmarole
IMPROVE my prospects; and no. Mr.
Eisenhower, ! will not wear your amule
to get rid of my rheumatism.
Why? Well, because I am honest.
may not be very holy or soul-emancipat
ed, but ! pride myself on being an hon.
est man.
And I'm going to be as honest with
myself as ! am with my neighbor.
The fundamental ethics is the ethics
of the intellect.
And that means that will believe only
upon examining the facts. My Judgment
shall remain absolutely automatic, and
shall bend only by weight of evidence.
shall not say believe thing just |
to see if it will not help me.
shall refuse to proclaim a faith in !
order to help anybody else.
Ladies, you touch the quick of my
virtue. / will not be disloyal to my rea-
son-no, not even to get to heaven.
History is full Of pious and learned
men who put expediency before honesty.
They did not believe what they professed
they did not even understand it; but
they said they did because they thought
it would aid others, would not offend the
weak, and would save their own souls.
But will take my chances with in
tellectual integrity alongside of all the
earnest souls who deceived themselves
and everybody else because, so doing,
they verify thought they were doing the
will of heaven.
| know, Mrs. Bonebrake, you claim
that your faith, resting upon a plain
denial of facts, has healed many; so, Mrs.
Hardscrabble, your cabala and so, Mrs.
Eisenhower, your amulet. Why not try
it? 1t has benefited others; why not
me?
Simply because every one of your
cures can be traced as justly to the
strange, mysterious, recuperative powers
of nature as to your particular nostrum
or form of self-hypnotism.
Thousands of invalids have got well
after being given up by physicians, and
got well without crossing their fingers
and reading your book. In fact, most
people, some time in their life, have mi
raculously recovered when it seemed they
should have died.
Hence. if you bottle Chicago River
water and get enough people to "just
try" it, you can collect innumerable tes-l
timonials But doubtless if you publish!
these you would not include in your rel
port the equally innumerable cases where's
the victim did not get well.
No, ladies'; appreciate your kindly in
terest in my bodily health and my souls
salvation. but I'm going to stay honest
and see what happens.
When am met by proposition that
is based on facts, and not on the ignor-
ing of them, that is reasonable and con-
vincing, and that is substantiated by the
known laws of evidence and squares with
common sense, will embrace it. Other
wise, no; and thank you all the same.
Nothing doing on the esoteric, the
fuzzwuzzy the ecstatic, the self-hypnotic,
the what-if-it-is-true-aft er-all-you-can't
tell.
My intelligence may be pretty poor,
but it's all l have. I'm going to stand
by it and refuse to prostitute it, no mat
ter what the bride.
The web of destiny is complex, know,
and none of us knows the secret springs
of life and events; but l have notion
that if man sticks to the truth as he
sees it, and declines the lure of truth
as he does not see it, even if the latter
promises health, wealth, and happy
hereafter, he will be likely to come out
about where his Creator intended.
WIRE IN cows HEART
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