The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26

All that the world needs for the guidance of it's book. "A few strong plain rules would the world singing way, instead of tying it up in periodical blunders which hinder progress and give a of infinite and iTremediable confusion.
 Learning may need large space thousands of vol u1nes, experiment and failure and progress; but strange to say, Wisdom carries very little of such baggage.
 There are a few truths all of us know when we have reached the more mature years, and We see them be very foundation wisdom of life plain, enduring, But when happen tion them in conversation if with the words then with the spirit which says "oId stuff! Give something new"
 A curious illusion persists among us that because we have heard thing. we therefore know it. Rep tition is not desired We begin to refer contemptu-
 Well it is very evident to the observer that a "platitude' ts truth of which everybody has heard but which few really know.
 The world has heard everything that is neces- to the re-estab blishment of life universal It has heard every essential principle any number of times And yet there is no sign that it fully knows them.
 you saw man continually making sums on paper in which plus ? equaled 5, you would say,
 Yes. yes," the man would reply, "every school child knows that Tell me something new" and making the mistake
 He would be behaving much like the human today.
 simple principle of uttered, that We heard it when we were children Everybody in the same way before.
 What does it mean? Simply that we do not
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 s simple came only in the scholars vesture in dead and learned language, behind barrier of books which lifetime would suffice master, it would be hardly possible
 But Wisdom comes in such simple guise that more often she is received by the peasant than by the prince.
 All the personal and social morality known to the is summed in the brief Ten Command 1nents, all the higher and finer principles of up Sermon on the Mount and both of them together enough to fill a penny pamphlet,
 Whatever may form In which {, World Covenant of the Nations is written, you will every assertion in it marking calogue; whatever may service at tained by the choicer spirits mankind, will never exceed the Words Spoken on the Mount
 And yet these would be among the things lovers say, is ol and stale. Give something new.
 Now, matter of fact, there isn't anything new; if there only De attained through a complete use and absorption of what is old and true
 principles are from eternity and to eternity
 All of our apparent going forward is simply progress farther into the heart of Principle l not a learning of new things, but new learning of
 be wrong steal whether affects the potatoes farmer has planted child's affection which the parent possesses, or the territory which forms integral part of a nations sovereignty.
 you take this single matter stealing, and trace through all the operations political financial, industrial, social and moral worlds, you that-shaH than half?-of the worlds trouble is by plain stealing
 If the entire story of the recent war-incIuding along the line of this single stealing the discoveries would be amazing
 to learn no more the century than to live by the it already knows the year 2O00 would dawn upon an Earth without a single sore nrob lem of progress consists n going back starting again another pan when it might consist in going from one complete con Yet, if you insist on these simple Fundamental principles without which substantial achieve