The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-12


contemporaries who also declared {
pale within which all that was RICH
or the truth was contained. Toda,
we recognize the bigness of Columbus
but we scarcely know who his con
! temporaries were.
/, The development of the various
| beneficial works Of science has come
because Of great men who have re-
fused to be limited in their thinking
to things prescribed.
Set up limitation and you set up a
barrier. The world and life in general
is an everchanging thing and any
standards which are set up as ire
vocably right are certain sure to be
doomed to disruption.
Men will continue to think outside
the pale. They cannot be limited to
a system that precludes some things
and abolishes Others Experience has
too often proved the fallacy of such
a situation.
Mans progress through the ages
has all been the result Of men called
heretics because they did not agree
with that which was known and which
some wished to be the only thing ever
known.
The men in the times past who
have confined their thoughts and act
ions to the things circumscribed by
certain system or a certain scheme
are not the men who have lived in
the immortal pages OF history. On the
contrary the men of history have al
ways been men with vision many
times broader than the reputed prac-
- 1>4 ~, {oL L
Abraham Lincoln rose to promi-
hence and delivered his master stroke
at the institution of slavery simply
because he was the type of man
who rises above all rites or ceremon-
les. He allowed no matter to come
between himself and freedom of
thinking and doing.
He realized the vital place that sys-
TENS and the like played in limiting
the capacities of the individuality of |
the man and refused to be bound
down. He accepted and refused moth
ing only insofar as it was proved |
right and practicable.
And there is the crux of the whole |
question. Adoption of any scheme that
precludes even consideration of any
thing not contained in that system
limits and devitalizes the possessors
To accept strictly some one certain
thing one naturally excludes all other
things.
This exclusion of other things that
nay come up is the hampering feat
Ire of hard and fast system. With
INVENTIONS, discoveries and research
n thought, thousands Of things once
ieemed right and proper are gradu-
lily being relegated to the realm of
he useless.
Man has not arrived at the stage of
development where he can say that
his thing is absolutely right and all :
hat does not conform, wrong That
ttitude has too long been the handi-
.ap Of progress. Everyone knows
hat only when people become ac-
uainted with something new do they
eally advance in learning, art and
u1ture. y
Savage man had none of the COM
orts and luxuries of modern life, be-
ause he was limited in his thinking
nd doing. He feared all that he did
OF know and his range of acquaint-
nceship was limited, to say the least.
My the very elemental instincts and
sndencies functioned in him.
But when man began to look be-
ond the pale of things regulated and
ccepted did he come to see some of
lie possibilities and, as have said
sfore, make the forces and phenom-
Ia of nature function for his uses.
was discovery and invention that
sally brought him to higher plane
life. Not the acceptance of things
ready known.
Even today we must guard against
e tendency to draw circles around =
IT thoughts and deeds and thereby :
'eclude other persons and things
he acceptance of a rigid system of
~ nature is apt to do that very
ing. If it does we may be sure that
9 have by the very nature of accept
g something, excluded thousand
illion other things of which we may +
wv know little but which may exist
yet come to exist.
The man who excludes the sunlight