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

large measure impractical, and op-
crates oftentimes opposite to and
in defiance of established rules of
logic, it is to this factor of mind
that we owe our present-day
knowledge of the earth, the heavens,
the sciences, the arts, etc.
Objective mind, governed by a
! hard and fast rule, holds that two
plus two equals four; that it can
make neither more nor less. Sub
jective mind suggests that two plus
two may equal five. And it was
this impractical working of sub
jective mind that impelled man to
enquire of Nature concerning her
heretofore unknown and seeming
ly unknowable mysteries.
From the earliest date of record
ed history the mind of man has
been concerned with the weighty
problems of the universe. Highly
speculative, even wholly imagina-
tive, have been many of the pos
sible-rather, impossible-solutions
offered. This, l hold. is because
the objective mind is dependent in
it's reasoning processes upon the
subjective mind for a tenable pre-
mise upon which to base it's con-
clusions. And if the premise up
on which an argument is based is
unsound, it follows, naturally, that
the conclusions adduced therefrom
will in like measure be incorrect.
For example: The most ancient
historian, whose works are to-day
extant, visioning the studded
armament and comparing the tiny
points of light there seen with the
earth upon which he stood and
which he believed to be the far
greater volume, basing his calcu-
lations upon the two plus two
equals four premise, tells us in his
theory of the origin of the universe
and its peoples, that, although it
took five days to bring into exis-
tence the earth and it's then single
pairs of animals, the sun and moon
were created in a day. And then
as an afterthought, as if it were
but trivial task, he tells us that
the stars were made also. The
same day.! His error is readily
apparent when we compare the
relative sizes of the earth and any
one of many of the heavenly bod
les. The sun has a diameter of
100000 miles; Jupiter, largest of
the planets, IS, 900; Saturn, 10000;
while Earth's greatest diameter,
that at the equator, is but 1926
miles.
These and the myriad other stel-
lar bodies objective mind saw as
only a handful of star-dust, which,
from their apparent size in the far
distance, were only an afterthought
of the All-Creative Mind, to be
"also made" at the close of per-
feet day!
On a later date and after he had
taken up the reins of national gov
ernment in death laid down by his
predecessor, another man, engaged
in battle and wanting few more
hours of daylight in which to
harass the enemy, thinking of the
earth as huge solid, resting upon
a firm, immovable foundation, and
conceiving the heavenly bodies to
be but lesser luminaries whose only
Office it was to illumine the earth,
in the exultation of that supreme
confidence that has it's genesis in a
mind void Of knowledge, cried:
Sun, stand thou still upon Gibe-
on, and thou, moon, in the valley
of Ajalon."
One by one the centuries were
gathered from the cradle of the
Future and laid in eternal repose
in the vast cemeteries of the Past.
In the warerooms of subjective
mind were stored the various data
gathered from the receding years.
Gathering strength with each sue
ceeding century of exercise, subjec-
, tive mind finally asserted itself and
suggested that perhaps two plus
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