The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-22

And another great teacher affirms that
AS man thinketh in his heart SO IS
he. And Thomas L. Harris, in Tyr
les Of Golden Age, emphasizes the
following essential element:
The nearer to the practical men keep
The less they deal in vague and alb
stract things
The less they deal in huge, mysterious
words
The mightier is their power.
The simple peasant, who observes
truth,
And from the fact deduces principle,
Adds solid treasure to the public
wealth.
The theorist, who dreams rainbow
dream,
And calls hypothesis philosophy,
At best is but a paper financier
Who palms His specious promises for
gold.
Facts are the basis of philosophy,
Philosophy the harmony Of FACTS"
Now, there are many facts in nature
that the average man and many So
called experts and men of learning
have never dreamed Of in their phil
osophy. As Benzion Liber says in his
book The Child and the Home:
I'VE should never lose sight Of the
teachings of history which show us that
human progress is not due to the work
of the experts Of any given epoch, but
to the achievements Of the so-called
inexperienced but daring individuals
who, thru their audacious experiments
and in their attempt to test out their
theories. have opened for us new roads
and have brot us new light. Contin-
ents have been discoyered, territories
have been explored, : :; $ scientific
principles have been practiced, social
systems have been revolutionized, not
with the assistance. support, co-ope-a-
ton and encouragement of the experts
Of the time, but in spite of their opin-
ions. nay, against their open. and of
ten violent hostility. And do we not
see to-day that >one of the strongest
obstacles in the way of new social
system is the warning of the experts"
in economic matters that the modern.
socialists, single-taxer's, or anarchists
dreams are impossibIe-the opposition
of the experts"
They put Martoni in sanitarium
because he would persist in the idea of
the wireless, and Longley, the first IN
ventor of the heavier-than-air flying
machine, was bounded to his death
thru chagrin and modification because
of the derision and denunciation with
which he was flooded by the wise heads
of the capitalistic press.
The wonderful experts and scribes
Of the things that are insist that the
Golden Rule and altruistic co-opera-
ton are impracticabIe and that nothing
better than the present dog-eat-dog
cannibalistic economics can be estab-
ished And as long as people accept
such teachings they will consequently
be controlled by them in their actions
and suffer the effects they involve.
And yet we know that all people in
the world act in conformity with the
knowledge. opinions or concepts they
really and truly believe in and enter
tain, and not with those that they pro-
fess> or claim as their fundamental prin-
ciples Of faith.
Good and evil are not entities, they
are simply words which we use to In
dictate the result Of our actions. and
these actions have been Predetermined
by the character of our thought. Our
thoughts are either constructive or de-
structive. They may involve harm to
ourselves or to others. If constructive
in the best sense of the word they will
be beneficial to ourselves and to 9TH
ers. Constructive thinking and CORE
spending action can bestow only ben
efits because ii is in harmony with be-
ing and is tangible goodness. 1t is the
unifying principle in human relations
and if accepted as a guide TO conduct
will bring about universal harmony,
peace and plenty. Ii is the real GOOD
that can be experienced here and now
by its recipients. that should be the OBJ
ject Of our devotion. THE God which
forms the subject of theological argu-
ment, says James Allen. and whose
existence or non-existence men are So
eager to prove. is the God of hypothe-
sis and speculation"
But the creative principle in nature
is fact, that any one can verify fol
himself or herself; and just to the ex-
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