The daily star-mirror., 1922-08-09
been mistakes.

been mistakes.
Mistakes are the mileposts of pro-
gress. The path of man and nature
is marked by wreck and ruin. Every
phase of life is more or less expert
mental and those things that survive
the elements are the one percnt of all
| experiments undertaken by man and
nature.
The world abounds with the mis-
axes of nature. Every land is full OF
fossils of prehistoric reptiles, animals
and the like that have not sur lived
the test of time. Monster mammothl
ancient fish and other kinds Ofanimal
life have succumbed to the elements
before nature evolved the animals and
fishes that today inhabit the earth.
Nature has been and still is the most
prodigious of experimenters. And ex
perimenters we all are. Experiment
ers make mistakes and SO do we, and
nature as well. On every hand she
watts her wand of change and decay
and countless millions of forms Of
life cease to exist.
To every success that he has achiev-
ed. man has failed dismally literally
thousands of times. Ancient man no
doubt looked at the stars and mar
yelled and wondered. But it was
only after many centuries of gradual
enlightenment and then long periods
of advancement that he perfected his
telescope and learned how to measure
ethereal distance.
How many mistakes did man make in
learning to determine the elements of
planetary and other heavenly bodies
by means of breaking up the rays
and then finding what elements COM
mon to earth gave off similar rays OF
light?
Man knew that helium existed years
before the process of making it had
been discovered on the earth. He had
found it by means of the spectrOscope
in the sun Think of that marvel of
science, finding an element in the sun
and then discovering it in the earth.
And think of what unnumbered ex-
periments with telescope and other
delicate astronomical instruments
happened before that marvel was at
all possible.
In the realm of statecraft, man has
cast uncounted forms of government
aside as failures in his experimenting
for a suitable vehicle with which to
govern himself. Tribal and city gov
ernment and now .monarchies in the
deemed mistakes along with millions
of others.
He has not yet succeeded in govern
ing himself perfectly and his path is
still being strewn with the wrecks of
that were recently in use.
very day reveals new mis-
takes that he had not thought of.
All that concerns man and life is
built up on series of experiments
mistakes If you please-each succeed
ing structure has outshone its prede-
cessor but it in turn has been deemed
q mistake in the great majority of in
stances.
But the one consoling thing about
the universal tendency to err " the
tact that every mistake has proven to
be and is a stepping stone to success.
When the house is razed by fire, the
lew edifice that rears it's head sky /
ward is always an improvement over
he old. So when man or nature has
made mistake the next step has al
ways been better than the one before.
The individual accomplishes things
" making an earnest attempt to do
The most of his efforts
will be mistakes, but for every mistake
made he learns an unforgettable less
n and slowly, piling the mistakes one
n top of the other, builds himself
adder to success.
Only by contrast do we appreciate
r are we able to appreciate the Joys
f life says one of the greatest. phil
sophers. The good is intensified by
ne bad; blessings are recognizable