Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-06
THE SAME IDENTICAL EFFECT ALWAYS FOL
 LOWS THE SAME IDENTICAL CAUSE.

emergency.
 They. grind the grist which is mathema tical precision.
 If at any times they seem to work unevenly or unequally, the intelligent man knows that the inequity is not in them but in him: in his own ignor- ance, or incapacity, or blindness.
 How any human being can live a score of years in this universe W4th- out seeing all this as clearly as he sees the monday sun, or without ac- cepting it's limitations as frankly as he accepts his own physical limita- tiOns, is an unexplicable mystery.
 But there are human beings who don't see it and won't taccept i . There are enough of them to be counted by the millions rather than the thousands. They are found in every rank of society and in every vocation of industry and in both sexes.
 stances cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
 Or. in more familiar terms, you can't eat your cake and have it. too.'
 Yet, without taking any actual cen sus, l should say that more than half the people of the world can't and won't see this fundamental fact They think they can eat their cake and stifl have it, too. They keep on trying it. No one of them ever succeeded. vet; but the most mysterious of all the mysteries connected with this phase of human idiocy is that persistent and inevitable failure doesn't discourage them from trying the same fore doomed trick over again.
 have two neiqhbors who, three years ago, were given the same num- Der of strawberry plants by a mutual friend who was reducing his own bed. Both accepted and set the plants. One took care of his, several times at the cost of personal discomfort and sore ly against the dictates of his own pleasure. The other preferred to go automomibile riding. when the oppor- tunity offered, rather than crawl over a Weedy Stra wberry bed in the hot sun on tender knees and pull per nickety weeds with sore fingers to the concerted music of buzzing flies and singing gnats and stinging mosqui- toes.
 Result: the first neighbor has had regularly and has this year a fine crop O fnoble berries. The second neighbor has neither a berry nor a plant left and frequently expresses wonder why the first should have been so lucky" in comparison.
 # he should be asked to subscribe to the formal statement that two sub stances can't occupy the same space a the same time or even to the less dignified phrase that one can't eat his cake and have it. too, he would cheer fully do so As distractions he egrees to both. At the same time he can't see why he shouldn't take his cookie of pleasure automobiing and not also have his strawberry shOrtcake. He doesn't see, won't see and can't be made to see that he had his choice those times when the strawberry bed was calling in one direction and the honking auto in another. He want ed the joy ride. And he wanted the straw wberries. The gas-waon was right there, while the strawberries were a season ahead, at the best. He took the present pleasure, instead of doing the present work. He had the ride and he lost the strawberries. The other man won the berries by sacri- fcing his present pleasure for the toll needfu1 to secure them. The first man had his pleasure then, which the sec