The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-05-20


of death; | feared it almost beyond en-
durance. To-day look forward
with happy expectation to its coming.
Death is the greatest experience Of
life and is the reward Of life's turmoil.
My fear is gone, said Nat l. Brown,
who for years has been experimenting
and investigating in things psychical in
addition to formulating plans to get ed
ucation to the minds Of the people thru
the films.
There's nothing to lose and every
thing TO gain. We leave world that
is lily balanced socially and cconomi-
cally, and where we are confronted
with hardships on every side. The
finer impulses must be smothcted ard
held in allegiance to fight battle made
unnecessarily hard. but perhaps, thru
visual instruction, may be removed to a
large extent in the next century.
In two hundred years Id have
to depart, for there would be much to
enjoy and live for. but now | know it
can't be worse, it must be better, and
| am satisfied that it is.
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Fer Of the unknown causes dread.
When dark falls our energy is low
and Fear easily. enters and drives the
mind to frenzy. We are brave in broad
daylight, but as we sit alone at night,
quiet all around, the unexpected flap
ping of curtain or scratchy sound
at the window pane sends shoulders up
and down the spine. An inheritance
from the time when every sound meant
TIE coming of a fee or devourer.
1888
The work Of man or woman just
begins when aboriginal fear departs. I
Fear departs through understanding.
Once the forces are understood and
explanation satisfactory to ones self
can be made, death. night Sounds, or
complexities Of life have little effect
upon the mind.
1919
Richard Croker, the great Tsmrnany
leader, dying in Ireland, ranks with
Socrates, Ep:ctetus and Marcus Azure !
Illus on the philosophy Of death. He
said:
What a childish thing it is to try
to beat the Almighty. And yet could .
name among my old time friends ir
NewYork dozens who went to their
deaths struggling and protesting, and
actually thinking they had someth ng
to say about it.
10 my way of thinking it Is ,bou.
the same as admitting that you are a.
fre;d to answer the greatest call maj,
= Ell gets-and when God is good, as
he has been to me, | cannot see any
reason not to welcome the summons"
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when the Street. Awakes" written
many years ago, tells of time when
he street corners will be heralding the
news from all parts of the world to lis
ening ears. As these words are writ
EN-, across Madison Square park comes
he voice of man in one Of the big
Metropolitan newspaper talking into
A radiophone and from the corner of
he Madison Square building a magma
yox bawls it forth. The will of Richard
Croker is being read to listening thou
sands seated under shady trees. Mar
yelous is science, more marvellous is the
mind Of man.
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In dream a woman saw her
brothers. murderer. She only saw"
ais back. She communicated with the
authorities and when the suspects back
turned said: That's the man. The
man confessed.
1893
Where does the mind go when you
are asleep? 1t comes back and tells
you things but through repelHng the
and thoughts time after
.ilae. like a neglected child, turns its
attention to other things, probably sep
arating you from what we call life.
When we get to the point Of recep-
sivity that the radiophone and micro
phone is IMPLYING, we shall learn
lot of things from Natures library, |
which stands just across the shadows,
The mind that has no depth. heighth |
or thickness. and thinks" Jupiter, Ur-
anus. Earth, typewriter, with equal
quiokness-who can say what its linn
itations are?
Men can do and make what Mind
imagines. Nothing is outside the ina
gination. Everything was an image
upon the obscura of the brain before
it was fabricated into steel and bricks,
or into concrete form.
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