The Washington times., 1922-05-09


face is turned toward the mother Everything is inter
estng everything thought everything must be
Explained.
with that child looking out of the window We grownup
people keep eyes inside the We tired, bored,
the world looks old to things that happening do
not interest
AND THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE CEASED
ITO GROW
Would we suggest that grown and women should
knee the seats and look out OF the window? No. But
we do that it is bad for the who
to use eagerly and constantly the eyes and the magma
ton through which alone THE BRAIN CAN GROW.
What the moving street is to the child, with all its
excitements and wonders, THIS MOVING EARTH
SHOULD BE TO THE GROWN MAN OR WOMAN.
Every night of lives through mysterious
space, but have the opportunity to look out at the
wonders of the universe around We have the oppor
tuny to ask questions and to have them answered by
the books astronomy and the other sciences
How many of us look out! How many OF us ask ques
tions of books of learned men' NOT ONE IN TEN
THOUSAND AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF AGE; PER
HAPS ONE IN A THOUSAND BETWEEN TWENTY
FIVE AND THIRTY: ONE IN A HUNDRED Be
TWEEN TWENTY AND TWENTY FIVE.
One of the best sayings have read is this:
Every child is genius, and every genius is child
That is literally true. Genius above all things
the power to things AS THEY ARE.
The genius in the grown of course creative
power hard work concentration; but above all
THE OPEN MIND, THE POWER TO RECEIVE
IMPRESSIONS.
The who to look out, to inquire, to ask to
imagine is like who has lost his sight He has not
lost the physical sight of the eyes but the spiritual sight
of the brain. which is infinitely precious
This writer listened to famous inhabant Of
Chicago making his first trip up the Rhine. He sat
a small chair, looking INWARD, with never glance at
the old towers, the hills and the vineyards And as he
looked inward he talked with friend about slaughter
house that he had in Paris earnestly proving that
t very inferior to second rate slaugherhouse
in Chicago-not really big enough for a decent re
frigeratng plant And that supremely intellectual
versaon lasted him until he off the boat ready to
na the next meal at the next hotel.
There nothing exceptional about this man-others
like him are in New York, Paris, London everywhere in
the world. HE HAD SIMPLY LOST THE FACULTY
OF THE DESIRE TO LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW.
1t is easy to understand that real growth for him had
ceased. Very likely he might with time, become
much aber and more energetic saugherhouse proprietor
He might become more and A USEFUL MAN,
since it is useful to give work to other men.
He might, in fact, become a thoroughly admirable
citizen by distributing good meat and providing for
human hunger. But as a human mind, human soul, he
blind man; his growth had stopped.
good many Of us wonder what is the matter with us.
why do not grow. The answer nine times out of ten
would be- WE HAVE STOPPED SEEING. We have
stopped feeding our minds; we have stopped "looking
out of the window We have gathered together our
little supply of information and little supply of i'm
pressons We have little foolish stories that we tell
and We have arranged system of dressing
ourselves; have decided what like for breakfast
and for dinner We have read few books and we talk
about those, AND WE READ VERY FEW NEW ONES
We go occasionally to some foolish play and think
have of humor if laugh or believe ourselves
sensitive and sympathetic if we weep.
BUT WE ARE NOT GROWING. THAT CHILDISH
EAGERNESS FOR KNOWLEDGE, WHICH MARKS
THE LITTLE BOY AND THE GREAT GENIUS
NEARLY ALL MEN LOSE EARLY. And after that
they become valuable dummies little wheels in the great
machine, useful buyers sellers or workers
But they not really MEN any longer. Lucky for
the human that death was invented; lucky that
Death, with his scythe, along and us off by
the millions making FOR THE CHILDREN THAT
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