El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-12-11
EDITORIAL VIEWS.
III ----- ~ Are you in the habit of reading
[FOR SNUBS. biographies Of great men? If so we
:s a 81 offer you our cordial congratlla-


tions sure are that you profit
great deal by reading them, making your own deduc-
tions laying aside what your good judgment tells you
is bad trying to assimlate what is good etc. They say
that when Napoleon was a poor boy studying at Bren
ne aside many times all by himself with his rdde
Dsecu ussually Plutarchs Parallel Lives. Now, please
don't think for moment that Napoleon is OF our
IDOLS do not question for moment his little as one
of the greatest men, OF of the fourQr ve counting
Foch-mary geniouses particularly; but there are so
many flaws in the mans character that we would hes
tate very much before recommending him as model.
In America, than i'll other part of the world,
Napoeons have constituted vertable pest Therefore,
be resoved they say over at the Legislature that
none OF us will be Napoleon.
But that habit of his, of reading the lives of great men
is very good one although it that he could not
profit by the extent Of learning how to develop that
moral characteristic possessed by almost every great
man humility. But remember what Ruskin says about
the quality mot at all to doubt of power or hes
citation to speak opinions but right understand
ng Of the relation between what aoe can do and say and
sthe rest of the worlds sayings and doings"
Nh Yes, really great man is always modest piain hum
ble He thinks he is IT. many of our little
combs do right here i'll Porto Rico. Whatever subject is
discussed he is always ready to admit that even child
may know enough to make him change his opinion. A
story about Humboldt says that the great man, when
newly arrived at any place. used to make all kinds of in
aures about things which any ordinary traveller would
have known without necessity of being told "How is it
somebody asked-that man who knows so much
"nakes so many questons?" And the reply "That
is Just why know little; because inquire much"
Discretion is the richest quality in persons moral
makeup but is not shown quickly the other vire
it is simply because discretion is the mother OF humility,
and the former waits till the second to meet the
conner. Did you notice the difference between
really worthy and really nb one by the way each
one meets another person for the first time? The real
greets the unknown his equal regardless Of what
may be shown the surface; the snub-we he is al
ways less than fifty per cent civilized being anyway,
and as such to be always afraid to smile to the
person he sees for the first time OF course many cir
cto al
good Many years have passed since read Thackerays
essay on Snmbsm but since then have had time to
a make observations and conclusions Snubs =
, what plague!
Some of these days we, the plain people will have to
fumgate the many petits Saint Germans that are found
everywhere and cure that terrible affection called
nty The patients will have to be cured explain why
that peculiar they have to shake your hand with
the most ridiculous affectation why shoW much inter
est in rare subjects that only hetupd pecocks
Of society," and finally learn, for all times, that no
matter what notions they may have into their heads,
their dirty selves made of nothing except flesh and
bone just like the rest of human beings