The Washington times., 1919-04-13
Truth-JustiCe knowledge
They Are the Great Levers Which Move the Human
Race Upward.


shortness, only with many as four letters:
Dos moi pom Sto kdi kinO gen.
Literally translated, "Cive me place to stand and
move the earth"
he was explaining to the king the marvels Of mechanics
and said that with lever long enough, fulcrum and
place on which to stand of the earth he could move the
earth And what he said was true
The king asked him to prove the levers power, and
Archimedes taking big, heavily laden ship arranged
lever so that the king with hand able to press the
lever end and move the ship at the other end
They told many wonderful stories about Archimedes
how he invented burning glass that set fire and destroyed
the skips of the attacking Romans and other marves
But all the wonders told true invented are as moth
ing compared with the great wonder the BRAIN Of
Arcmedes and the work that he accomplished In mathe
maics in physics in mechanical invention in all the lines
Of postive scientific knowledge he did than any
before him more than all the put together for thou
sand years after him would take you long time to read
merely list and description Of the books he wrote It
would take the average many year to understand
them
What magnificent life and death he had The study
of abstract truth occupied his mind in all waking hours
When his city was taken by the Romans and he mur
dered BY one of the Roman soldiers that soldier found him
at work on mathematical problem
Think of that mind working IN that early day with no
other instrument except THOUGHT. Reckoning for the
information and amusement Of the kings the number
Of grains of sand that could be contained in sphere the
apparent size Of universe Arcmedes devised methods
Of figuring into figures such as we should represent by add
ing eighty thousand to the figure When boys
learn TO measure the sphere surface and contents they lea
what Archimedes taught.
The dust Of the giants body long ago decayed lies still
whe the Roman Cicero found it, OVergrown with weeds and
hiaTs Ia the day Of Caesar.
The thought that came from that handful of dust fills
f4s earth monument big the earth that will
die Such is real greatness not the kind that one man gets
By leading millions Of men kill other millions but
man gets by using his brain to conquer eternal truth
So much for the man who spoke Of the lever and its
power.
This picture shows you what is theoretically the truth
n you had lever long enough with end under the
pyramid fulcrm upon which the lever might rest and
certain weight at the other end you could by adding the
wsght Of single fly the lever down and turn
the biggest Of the great pyramids Of Egypt
But that is not the most interesting thing that you
IA this picture You see in it the IMPORTANCE OF POSI-
TON and BALANCE
You know that what the lever is in its power to
heavy resisting weight TRUTH is in its power to move men
Mans hand the engines that he builds the bridges that
he throws rivers the spade with which he overtns
the soil Of his gardsn-a these represent work WITH THE
MATERIAL LEVER.
Mans MIND like his body has levers of its own more
powerful than the Of this picture and important
For the levers Of the mind truth knowledge JUSTICE
sources Of power that have lifted and lifting out
oE ignorance degradation superstition and brutality to
higher life which is reserved for man.
To move the material earth Archimsdes must ask for
place stand outside the earth that he might put his lever
underneath it and press It down.
But to the spiritual earth the destiny of human
beings Is not necessary to leave this earth The work
be done here OR it be done in leaving the earth
On that day, when There darkness the whole
nd until the ninth hour" the world moved forward
R the nobes spirit died It has been moved forward and
upward Whenever and wherever have died for the truth
Or lived and fought for it.
''GlVe me place stand and will move the earth
Ssid the great Greek truly,
Give me the right to think and speak, says the man
Of Justice and power In every age land will the
earth"
Truth, justice and knowledge the great levers
stronger than beam Of Steel for they do indeed lift the
earth upward and raise the human race with It,
We cannot work physically without a lever we can
not work mentally without THOUGHT; we cannot think
accurately or uSefuly without knowledge