The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-05-13
rs HUMAN NATUt Z REALLY
SUCH A BAD POSITION?
Human nature is a

Truman nature is q Land wick
ca, We are told eys. acre. Every
pessimist makes football 81 human
nature, and very seldom We hear !
good word spoken anent this subject.
And yet there are some mighty GOOD
things that might be said about this
goat Of ill-characteristic remarks. Did
you ever see a mother minister Il her
babep Note the love beams N her
leyes as she fondles and smiles 81 Ike
little mite Of humanity! Doesn't this
condemned human nature. manifest
whole lot of good, too, Mr.. Pessinaist
or Mrs. Pessinistp A person that has
an everlasting crouch on Is looking al
the world through the spectacles. Of this
crouch and all the beauties of life are
hid from his perception through the
distorted state Of his mind.
| Faultfinding and knocking was On
the carpet at the psychological meeting
lat Newllano on May 4th, and many
Of the comrades said quite a nouthful
on this delectable subject. Faultfind-
ers. consider themselves highly yirtuous
people. They are sure things ought
Ito be different, anil the other fellow
is always wrong. The other fellow hes
1.-THE splinter in his eye, and the fault
finder is entirely unconscious Of the
beam in his own eye. They ought ia
lido this They ought to do that" is
heard almost everywhere. Ii never
seems to occur 10 the Pathfinder that
there. is something that he individually
Knight do to improve his own work and
Econduct, and thus by example induce
Others to follow suit.
Mere faultfinding and abusive con-
demnation never has accomplished any
Thing, If you know something better,
demonstrate that better. You know,
The proof Of the pudding is in the eat
ling No matter how good you may
consider your pudding recipe to Be, Or
| the bill of fare Of high sounding words
that you have concocted in your i'm
aglnation, nobody will give up practi-
cal ways, demonstrated by satisfactory
results for some fancifuI theory never
verified by practical achievement
There is a technic of manual labor,
and there is technic Of rational think
ing, and there is also a technic accord
ing to which the economic affairs Of a
community of cooperators must Be car
rled on, and the persons in charge of
the administration of co-opertive econ
omIc affairs, who by years of success
ful demonstration have proven their
fitness for the trust imposed in them
are. surely better qualified 10 judge the
) ACCESSIBILITY of a proposed improvement
J or an additional industry than are new
t probationary candidates who have hac
no practical experience at all in such
matters. A broad comprehensive Wis.
ion AMI courageous initiative are the
prime requisites for productive cooper
alton leaders, and they should not B,
hamstrung by ill-advised faultfinding
But to get back to human nature
J human nature is raw material, charac
ter is what the individual, and society
J by. reacting on the individual, make oil
OF this often contemptuously referee
to and much despised human nature.
Human nature inherently is neithe
good nor bad; it depends entirely up
on the individual and society VIVA
! is made out Of it. Each and all
: we are the architects Of our own char
acters, unconsciously perhaps in th
largest degree up to the present time
The Bible says: 1t is as clay in tn
hands Of the potter And the individ
uaF and society with its institutions
the potter. When the Bible says thu
MAN is born in sin and shapen in in.
guilty." it means that he is born int
condition of affairs and political ii
y stitutions that disregard the essential re
quirements of a sane, rational an
wholesome human life.
The ideas. concepts and aims entei
tanned and methods employed are I'll
molding factors in creation. buildin
and forming the character. Whe
= these ideas, concepts. aims and metl
! DDS are peaceful. constructive. usefu
\ wholesome, beneficial. in short GOOT
n that kind of character is formed
\ and such life is designated in the Bib
n as a worship of,the supreme god. II
N greatest wellbeing Of mankind is IL
ri highest concept that the human mir
81 can nationally conceive, and this SUI
81 rene GOOD has been personified in Il
III Bible just as wisdom and many 9th
nj things are personified Wisdom kno,
81 ledgel is called a tree Of life. She
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