Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-10-20

fit; / have always tried to find out if
j could lust why it is that some men
succeed, some men rise so far above
others. and il possible to emulate their
example. / believe that the secret
perhaps of Judge Enery's success and
the secret of his great contribution to
the State and TO mankind was the fact
that he did not allow himself to think
with the crowd; his mind was too keen,
his ability too great Most of u.s. | be-
Heve, are mediocre men, we have
mediocre minds, we think along with
the crowd, We are led by the psychol-
ogy of the crowd. By the crowd /
mean all of us We unconsciousIy find
ourselves reasoning on the popular
side of any question. Judge Emery
did not reason this way and frequently
found himself on the unpopular side
zen of this community in this connec-
tion-but having made up his mind,
having reasoned the thing out with the
great ability and mental acumen which
he possessed. he was as fearless and
tenacious as the Roman in adhering
and giving expression to his opinions,
And one of the peculiar things about
life is that the great mind in the vast
majority of instances is right and the
crowd is wrong A better illustration
of this perhaps could not be found than
in mis- attitude toward certain indus
tries that were to be brought into this
community Citizens with the best of
intentions desired to bring industries
to their home community and these in
dustries, for the most part, demanded.
as a condition precedent, that the com.
munity itself should furnish capital
and furnish credit. Judge Emery
could not be convinced of the wisdom
of this; with his subtle powers and
his keen perception he reasoned that
any industry which came to this com
munity and required capital-that
could not obtain the capital and could
not obtain. the necessary credit
to do business in the community
whence it came-was not an industry
to be desired. How many times we of
the crowd We're wrong and how many
times the able distinguished man
right. ! leave to those who knew
him and who were acquainted with the
affairs of this community to bear testi-
mony. This is an illustration perhaps
of the ability of the master mind to
outreason those of us among the
mediocre.
1 shall always think of Judge Emery
as a great scholar. The Maine poet in
paying tribute to the vocation of the
scholar uses these words:;
The scholar and the world. The end
less strife,
The discord in the harmonies of life.
The love of learning, the sequestered
hooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books;
The marketplace, the eager love of
gain,
Whose aim is vanity. and whose end is
The distinguished man whose mem
DRY we to-day honor never permitted
the lure of the market-place and the
eager love of gain to wean him from
hooks and all the sweet serenity OF
books" He realized fully that from
communion with the great masters and
the great minds. the great thinkers
who have gone before, leaving the
heritage which their books contain,
can be acquired in this life something
far more precious than that which the
mark ct place can possibly afford. In
stead of using his rare attachments in
the eager pursuit of gain, something
many times richer in worldly goods he
chose the pursuits OF the scholar, and
the attachments of the scholar were
conservative in saying, than in any
man it has ever been my rare privi-
lege to come in contact with and know
The scholar has departed from our
midst. May the inspiration of his
memory ever lend zeal to our own
search for truth.