Evening star., 1925-02-11

WOulu OIer more rewards ana SatIs-
factions. Perhaps they misht-and
then, again, perhaps they might not.
"A man Is relieved and gay when
he has put his heart into his work
and done his best; but what he has
said or done otherwise shall give
him no peace"
Every one knows the truth Of that,
even the rawest recruit to the office
boy force.
Trust thyseIf-every heart VI
brates to that iron string. Accept the
place the Divine Providence has
found for you, the society of your
contemporaries, the connection OF
events. Great men have always done
so, and confded themselves childlfke
to the genius Of their age, betray-
ing their perception that the abso-
lute1y trustworthy was seated at
their heart, working through their
hands, predominating in al their
being.
"And we are now men. and must
accept In the highest mind the same
transcendent destiny: and not minors
and invalids in a protected corner,
not towards fleeing before revoiu-
ton, but guides, redeemers and bene-
factors, obeying the Almighty enort,
and advancing on Chaos ana the
Dark"
Brave words. those, Of which every
American today can be proud, as
these United States go forward on
the waves of prosperity. education,
and 1T Is to be hoped, essential
decency.
Children, babes, and even brutes.
Emerson says. show us how to go.
Every parent knows the full truth
of the following:
Infancy conforms to nobody; all
conform to II, so that one babe eom-
monty makes four or hve out OF the
adults who prattle and play TO ~.
Emerson breaches non -confor nifty
and non-consist ence, but not in an
anarchistic way. Nothing is At last
sacred but the integrity Of your own
mind, he says. This. Of course. II
your mind has the integrity to make
| IL sacred. The four-fusher. the pan
handler, cannot quote Emerson In
their defense.
1T is easy in the world to live
after the worlds opinion; it 10 easy
| in solitude to live after our own; but
the great man Is he who, In tho
midst Of the crowd, keeps with per.
| feet sweetness the Independence OF
solitude"
You will have to go back to the
Bible to find anything better put
than that.
"A foolish consistency is the hob
goblin of little minds" Is another OF
! the famous quotations from this es-
say. Thou sands have got solace out
! of the next purple sentence: ITO be
great is to be misunderstood"
Yet Emerson himself did not sane
ton even Quoting of himself, for he
said: Man In timid and apoioketic:
he is no longer upright: he dares
not xay 4 think am but quotes
some saint or sage.
"He is ashamed before the blade
of grass or the growing rose.
These roses under my window
make no reference to former roses or
| TO better ones; they are for what
thew are: they exist with God today.
."There is no time for them.
."There fs simply the rose; it is
perfect in every moment of its ex-
| istence. -
"Before a. leaf-bud has burst its
! whole life acts; in the fun blown
| flower there is no more: In the leaf
| less root there is no less
..Jts nature is satisfied. and II salts
| fes nature. in all moments alike.
but man postpones or remembers:
he does not live in the present, but
with reverted eye laments the past
or needless Of the riches that sur
| round him, stands on tiptoe 10 ioi
see the future.
"He cannot be happy and strong 9
until he, too, Wise with nature in the
| present above time.
! We should not be afraid OF our
Emerson, who expressed the genius
not only of his own age, but or our
age, and of all ages.