The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-04-12

Copernicus; and our system of
reckoning time to-day is based up
en- the Copernican theory of plane
tary movement; the same having
been indubitably attested.
Primal man was principally OBJ
jective and was governed in his
conception of things by mere ap-
pearances. No data having been
furnished it, from which it might
reason from the known to the un-
known, from cause to effect, the SUBJ
Jective mind remained quiescent,
dominated by the objective. For
millenniums mans conceptions of
things material were of the crud-
est, of things spiritual the most
abominable. But even as woman-
kind are to-day obtaining recog-
milton, and are making their voices
heard and their ability felt in the
several branches of human en-
deavor and progress, so did the
feminine subjective mind finally
assert itself and, after a long and
bitter struggle, obtain equal rights.
How bitter must have been the
struggle is evidenced in the fire.
quent atavism, reversion to type,
Of men, even in this advanced stage
of civilization.
Born of this union of the two
mind factors is mans emancipation
from the construction of thought
action of the old two plus two
equals four regime. Two plus two
equals four under the higher and
clearer process of reasoning no
less, in fact, even more surely,
than it did under the old process.
For under the old method the
product seldom attained greater
proportions than the multiplicand,
whereas the multiplicand should
have increased in volume in ratio
to the power of the multiplier.
For instance: Primal man saw
that3the earth was a solid body.
His experience with solids was,
that they tended downwards. The
earth did not 60 downwards; there
fore it rested upon foundations.
His two plus two, instead of equal
ling four, resulted in a product
which exceeded neither the multi
plier nor the multiplicand.
Basing his calculations of things
present and of things to come upon
appearances only, the conclusions
he arrived at have, in most cases,
been proven as erroneous as were
his impressions that the earth was
fiat, that it rested upon founda-
tions, or that the universe would
stand still while one body of men
by divine right-should by violence
wrest from those who had in no
wise injured them their earthly
possessions.
The progress of man has been
prOportionate to the extent to
which he has been aided in his con-
siderations of given problems by
the united action of both objective
and subjective mind. 1t is only
under such conditions that he can
consider events in the light of their
relation to other events, that he
can intelligently compare forces
and determine the ratio of their
influence upon yet other forces. In
the absence of this unity of action
of the two mind-factors, mans
mental processes seldom produced
results greater than his original
problem. Two plus two, instead
of equalling four, equaled but two.
In other words, man stood prac-
ticalIy still. For four and half
millenniums he could not conceive
of the sun, moon. stars, constella-
tions, planets, maintaining their
respective positions by that attrac-
tive and repelling power we term
gravitation.
Having but vague conception
of the Designer of all designs, the
Causer of all causes, the Supreme
Mind over all mind, he made him
self gods after the manner of his
Individual likes and disllkes. And
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