The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-07-12
PANTASCOPES
Practical PHILOSOPHERS and Pertinent Points in the Pantascope
of Passing Events geographically Portrayed
By "Optimo''

and writing thinking being
the percentage those who give consider
low the of those who
Ages could read There mutudes who
They read that class of ea
ture thought They their mental food in
predgested tablet FORM They that the writer's and speakers
their thinking for hem accepting the of
question recorded the printed
tons made platform pulpit. speaker
expessedmost nearly coincide with their
ndstnct conception truth the whose expressed sentiments
themselves the thought product of their mental deber
They themselves consider that behind
the speaker POLITICAL social religious machine facts
with which he dare mention under penalty.
Mental Incidence in evidence in phase of life The
bizarre.
that when such
their amlate them them
suffer intellectual indigestion and results Often in mental
dysentery.
The of s and, if normal, when
fed with will finished product Of logical deduc
But greatly have it's become atrophed through
marked has been degeneration by abuse that in
many than house for the thoughts
of Others This is evil enough in and OF ITSELF
where Incidence dehoned there
less unceanness aud accumulation of filth do the
thoughts others through such mind become polluted by
the therein and thus evil pepetrated
may pride heirself being great reader but what
they have read only weight their notion
the descending weights kept the pendulum the old
fashioned clocks theirself for assimilation
fecion of with known facts
they but repeating only what they have but just
that garbed form injustice the
disconnected
their audience 1T the reading many books the
reading few could be have the BEST
make good and WISE" In this day Of voluminous press
this especially Truly, of the making of books
end" And the result that gorged
literary dyspeptics
The that has attended the human family the result
of effort but rather the intellectual pioneers
of the worlds history dared defect their
of popular opinion Accepting nothing that
not attest accounting for all phenomena by the laws of
known and seeking themselves with unknown
of and the laws governing hem these minds able
than other minds of the PERIOD perhaps have
achieved attained contemporary
follow They thought
for themselves Seeing effects all sought
Finding the by with effect
learned that like produce like effects Minds had
ed the roly of popular had for
ceped effects causes had clothed
debasing racterdegrading of superstition.
The thinkers in whatever field, have been heerodox
the orthodox But the heterodo idea
the laid hold of
became orthodox Centuries milennum took
for Idea become sufficiently popular
tai Incidence has been the think?
We have who have made life study the great
confront and learn of them without deng
into the complex problems of life for the
would pumbed the deens
of the problems whose they would you surveyed
their broadcast height? How unless Won
aquan yourself with the available your own
intelligence conclusion you able to render
for the hold? you not able to give
and logical because thew are the in
doent of anothers statement and
deduced from known data!
For and various have allied themselves
with political have
units of social body with idea of
the soundne of the which thew have
aligned themselves And their defense body of which them
selves the of known
facts but only repetition Of have been adj
vaned by leaders their have
had much to gain by imposing creduous unhnkng
public.
There is but North and South There are various
degrees of North and South but only
So aso we not that there but
Absolute Truth the other Absolute these two ex
there degrees and because Tutb
higher level than Error mental effort to
atan have been satisfied their goal
and have deceived Others themselves perhaps sometimes
the belief that the level was the utmost