The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-12-03
THE MIND OF MAN
By DR.. M. A. Majors

There are so many aspects of life,
so many points of view and angles
for scholar to riot in. Then there is
the joy transcendant, and the pleas
ure of happy speculation on PROPOSE
tons that must effect the long line of
humanity as it stretches back into
the beginning of things. The scholar
who can believe everything is in the
same FIX as the man who is not a
scholar. 1t is the scholars job to
question, have doubts, investigate and
to analyze, then formulate when
elimination will go no further. Thus
standards are reached, estimates are
brought up to their finest point. We
are not constructed to believe every
thing, nor in everything. There are
even intellecual limitations beyond
which the human mind cannot reach,
yet is must be very beautiful to ex-
ercise the intellect. The thought
world is a majestic sphere 1t is the
very acme of human grandeur and
in fact it must be the minds heaven.
All that is great and ennobling in
vites the richest of our imagination.
All that is worth while has engaged
the acute mind of mortals since time
immemorial The beautiful of earth
and sea has called from the heart of
man the artihce of his distressed anx-
iety to know all that he knows, and
would know. Nothing seems to pail
or stop him in his maddened and
assembled quest for the unknown.
Hence his climb from a primitive
state of chaos up to the very gate of
harmony and accord. Having reached
this sublime height he may grow
dizzy, yet happy because he has
through the wonderment of thought
traversed the path of science and
found truth the answer to his re-
searches and Investigations. The rich
est Of Gods treasures preserved for
his children are hidden and difficult
to attain. We are to get understand
ing only as we strive to know. The
stars in the armament of heaven
-adiate their beauty only through the
mind of the scholar To us so dull
hey show only a reflection of the
sun, but to the scholar they speak a
Varied language which is glorious be-
vond our possibilities of interpreta-
hon. The awakened intellect there
ore may see far into the abstruse
'henomina that makes for IT a larger
world to inhabit There are metes
md bounds even for the strident ma
ure of man and yet he ESSAYS TO
question the cause of limitations
Every feature of life has an at
aehed interest for the uninvented,
he undiscovered, the unraveIed, and
ne unsolved mysteries and riddles
hat perplex and seem to hinder men
al progress. Yet the power of men
al penetration, the indefatiguable
pint Of the seareher after truth per-
lists. This is the force behind which
intrenched the mental aeumen.
All that is glorious and grand is
idden therefore from Us because Of
ur lesser view. What exeites the
ravest interest may not effect him
rho has but little interest in things
rofound- What is therefore beauti-
a to the man of intellectual proves,
nay not seem to be much more than
rotesque to the man Of meagre at
ainmene
We honor the man who gives his
q to analyzing the complex funda-
ientais. The world through shere
1rce Of his fzrfetched accomplish
tents pays to him a homage Of fame ,
nd enriehes his name By proud ae-
aim His Is the very best We have {
J offer from Cur low estate. We (
ay never have enough Of his kind :