The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08

tM1ll teach them that they are working
upon different fundamental principles
and that selfish people can work to-
gether or cooperate and altruistic peo-a
pie can work together harmoniously or
cooperate; but it is impossible to mix
The two without serious strife and dis
agreement. The only way 10 know the
two different natures is to study the
factions produced by the two and COM
pare them, and it will not take long
TO determine which is which, because
they are diametrically opposite and an
tagonistic in every way. just like oil
and water; they will never mix no mat
ter how much you try. and failure IS
sure, to be the result in the long run,
altho selfish desire TO get a job and
accumulate some property may hold
them together for a time, the selfish
ones will be determined to use violence
and fraud to compel division Of the
property 50 that they can spend the
money, sooner or later.
II must be evident to any reasonable
land altruistic person that it is impor-
tant to study mental science and funda-
mental principles in order to make any
progress in altruistic cooperation,
which is the only kind we need; but,
of course, it will be impossible to get
selfish people to study mental science
until they become developed far enuf
to desire altruism. Selfish people think
it is waste of time. because they be-
lieve they were born with all the men
tai ability that is necessary for them
to have, and, in fact, they believeNthat
they were born naturally superior to
everybody else without any effort upon
their part whatever, and the more ig-
norant and selfish they are the more
thew are impressed with this erroneous
belief But they are sincere in it and
iirv to carry it out in life to the best
Iof >their ability, which is shown bv a.
disposition to boast of their own abiI-
lity, and to disparage that of others in
contrast with themselves; to endeavor
to show their suDerioritv by outdoing
everybody with whom they work. but
shirkine in every possible way possible
way when they work alone; alweys de-
termined to be the leader in evervthinp
or break up the game; making fun Of
some one to get aigqIe for them
selves; putting on all kinds of affecta-
ton to attract attention; quoting the
sayings of other people who agree with
their views to prove that they are right
when they know that thew are wrong:
always sure that everybody, is bad and
has his price as rule. They are sus-
picious because they are bad: they are
Jealous because they would do wrong
themselves; speed, speed, speed, any
thing to prevent reasoning so that they
can take the lead in their game all the
time; they hate reesoners because they
do not make blind followers: and so
on and on their actions could be emu
merated if space would allow; nobody
but blind people can fail to see them
| if thew look. and these actions all grow
out of the one little simple fundamen-
tai principle of working for self IN
stead Of working for the common good.
Is it worth while to study mental SCI
ence in the right way and COMPREHEND
fundamental principles or shall we go
on letting these ignorant, egotistical up
starts who assume 10 be superior go on
leading us. Fleeing US, and ruling US
because we have no desire to study fun
damental principles, and tell them to
get behind us and begone, we are go
ing to have altruism or die in the at
tempt? This class Of hypocrites are
ruling everything to-day, nearly; they
have taken up mental science and psy-
chology and twisted them to suit their
own purposes until it is very difficult
to find one that teaches any truth at
all in the line Of fundamental princi-
pies; they lead the poor deluded stu
dent into all kinds of by-paths and
into the iungles Of the imagination
and tell him it is mental science and
psychology. when it is nothing but a
mass Of experiments with material
phenomena. They know nothing about
the fundamental principles of anything
worth knowing, but use big words and
quote big authorities to delude the peo-
Die into the belief that they do know
something. when. in fact. their only
aim is to build up some sort of an Inn
aginary theory that is new SO as TO point
to their own superiority instead OF
pointing out the great, eternal. funda-
mental principles that produce every
thing.