The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-04
The Foundation Of Real
Wisdom Is Sympathy

We have had a good deal to say about Thomas Huxley.
Possibly readers will suggest that there has been too
much about
But if VOL Mr. Reader lived close to Mont Blanc or Pixies
Peak you would undoubtedly good deal about the
you And this writer living close to the mountain
Huxley mpeed at the risk OF becoming resome TO
talk of the mountain
You know that Huxley began life very poor man; that he
suffered through many years from i'll health that he added
enormously the knowledge of the human that he set
splendid example Of independence and seespecng intellect
Do you know why Huxley really great MANI
he could study with minute precision and
endless animal not because
he could Greek very short time when than half
century old It not because Of his great moral courage
1T WAS BECAUSE HE sYMPATHIzED WITH UNFoR-
TUNATE PEOPLE
beings are put this help each other and
the really great among them those who with greater
sympathy interest the Of their fellows than any
thing else in life.
In last recorded speech caryes Professor Teufdroch
proposed toast:
"Die saChe der Armen Gotes und Teufels namen-the
Of the poor in Heavens and the devils Huxeys
thoughts very young striving for knowledge and as
old honored by the whole world Of intelligence and
grafied by successful e always with the poor
can truly be said of him. said perhaps not quite
Justly Of Gladstone
''His heart was always with the weak and miserable
Huxley very young studied among the poorest
East End: ''N' - "''' 1'"' % A' experience IN 'n'
II saw strange things there-arnong the rest people
who came to me for medical aid, and who really
suffering from nothing slow starvation have not
forgottenam likely forget long memory holds
visit to sick girl in wretched garrett where two or
three other deformed woman, sister of my
patient, were busy shirtmaking.
After due examination my small medical knowl
edge uftlced to show that my patient merely in
OF better food than the bread and bad which
these people living. so as gently as I could
and the sister turned with kind of choking pas
sion Pulling out of her pocket few pence and half
pence and holding them THAT all get for six and
thirty hours work. and you talk about giving her proper
Huxley describes in the horrible life in those ungles
OF civilization called sums, and continues
All this almost within hearing of traffic of the
Strand within easy reach Of the wealth plenty of the
II used to wonder sometimes why these people did not
sally forth and get few hours eating and
drinking and plumber hearts content before the
police could stop and hang few Of them Rut tho noor
wretches have not the heart that AS slight
wiry Liverpool detective said to me when asked him
among:
lord bless you sir, drink and disease leave nothing
in them"
Wherever you look through history for great
others ~ Eva
And when you find great man falling sinking into little
ness you will find that egom bred of has caused
atrophy OF his human instincts changing his interest others
70 personal vanity ending his and usefulness
The great Soul Ruler of the world since the dav when He
came here to suffer poverty and painful DEATH life Of
absolute devotion to the poor and to the weak.
No man. Of course has emulated the example which Christ
get when He lived with the poor worked the poor spoke
Tor them prayed for them and died for them
But no man succeeds at all in way unless nature
the dominant factor sympathy for the other little human
negs fastened to this globe he u.s. and sharing
ats hopes and troubles and vicissitudes
You may talk Of the selfish who succeed but when we
tax OF success don't tumblebugs who roll their
treasure home pigs who succeed in finding acorns bankers who
pile up dollars trust organizers who rob- gamblers who
successfully swinde -
When we mention SUCCESSFUL men, we mean men really
euccesstutose whose lives haYe added something to the
dignity and decency of the human race.
DrOcnnrifu'c Zoos