The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-10
How To Make Men Think
A Most Important Question for THOUGHT Is the I'm
portant Work.

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| portant Work.
Gruesome is this picture of the punishment that
lnlc upon men. We here the earth but for day
Between the cradle and the grave boundaries of mystery
at either end of m have few years that might be filled
with freedom and good thnhngyet thousands prisoners
Of destiny this earth are locked up in stone prisons made
by men-a cage within a cage.
is though miners strapped in the mine should dig
prison cells out Of the walls of coal and lock each other in
Of all the sOulklng sounds in the miserable life of
failure most dreay that of the iron heavy door shutting
an unhappy human being in his cell for the first time
The jalers face tells that it is old story with him.
no longer meaning anything He is eager only the
key and be away to his liberty.
What bitter thinking has been done by unhappy men
at this first closing of the iron door, with freedom the
far side.
about the life that might have been different what self
hatred-as loneliness and despair settle down.
eff only had thought, the convict says to himself
thousand times sitting his hard pallet waiting for the
uumbness of despair settle into the blessed death of sleep
IF only Ind thought the THOUSANDS have sad pun
ished for crimes of commission.
the tens of millions drifting without real thinking into old
age and blank failure the great army of human beings that
commit no crime but the crime of OMISSION.
HOW CAN WE MAKE OURSELVES THINK?
Can anything stir up efficient thought in the brain that
is drifting toward failure and dreary old age? There is
bitter thought enough when old age comes and failure
prisoner looks out at others going on to SUCCESS.
Is there ANY way to make the brain active before is
too late?
What is it that suddenly changes the human brain into
powerful active, conquerng, constructive destructive
force?
You see such man as John Brown of Harpers Ferry,
at first the most commonplace kind of failure He fails in
this, he fails in that in grain, in cotton in horses.
Then an idea, thought, is borr = - ESain-BLACK
MEN SHOULD BE FREE.
Thought has begun determination is born with it. and
he is failure longer They catch him and hang him,
but the thought that leaves his brain while his body twtche
at the end Of to millions of other brains and
black men set feee.
Timur at twenty is studying the Koran, under his
fathers direction destined for war; because he is
The idea comes to him that this is big world, con-
querors can do wonders in it, he might well be You
him in his first invasion at the head of thousand fight
ing horsemen You him then beaten and wanderer-
but not defeated, for thought goes
Presently history begins telling of Tmur now known
the great Tamerlane
1t tells how he conquered Asia and loaded captured
elephants with captured gold and precious
Of the monsters carrying stones to build him mosque
to celebrate his glory They show You in the library of Lin
coin Cathedral CHASTITY fragment taken from the wall of
Aa-Shehr, the town around which Tmur built high wall
made of the corpses of his prisoners
He is past sixty when he invades India past seventy
when, "embamed with musk ambrose water wrapped in
linen laid in ebony coffin he is buried at Samarkand
in the mosque for which the elephants carried the stones
It was sudden-born thought and nothing else that
changed the ouet student into the world Uianf that other
students have studied and tried to describe Tan and
bearded broad chesd and broad shoudered able to bear
old Atlass BURDEN fierce Of countenance striking
into all behoers it not the physical force of this con-
queror this lame man, but his THOUGHT that gave con-
quest to him.
An Italian sailor, unknown thinks about the problem
of short road to India That THOUGHT is Columbus and
its result is this American civilization.
Gautama the Indian prince is in his palace living the
life planned for luxury self Indulgence to end only with
death As he looks upon his women his banque his palace
walls and jeweed clothes he asks himself WHY he leads
this life
He THINKS goes forth, makes thought and self denial
his life work. offers his body to the starving tgress that has
no milk for her cubs.
That thought the palace of pleasure the foundation
of the Buddhist religion in which hundreds of millions have
lived and died. Strangely, this religion, BORN OF
THOUGHT, teaches that happiness is found in Nrvana
where all thoughts end.
Mohammed riding his camel across the desert, seeking
gold for his rich middeaged wife, reres into cave TO
THINK