Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEVELL.

ing of evidence. this nice adjustment
Of pros and cons.
..There is nothing conclusive about
him; nothing certain save his uhcef'
taintv. Neither do women ma
friend in him: his cool detacnin' III
rasps their keener sense, or lnluitlon'
they arrive at sufficient truth whl'e
he is aged in testing his lhs'ru'
ments."
andrew Lang. admirable lover OF
hooks said: .'He is mans author.
not a womans: tired mans, not a
fresh mans. We all come tn him iate
indeed but at last. and rest IN MS
pa nelled library"
In the larger sense. what Lang sald
10 tr,le-but in another. not so m"'h
co. Montague is essentially tsI
tain kind of Young mans author. ''e
iS a writer's author for his sentences
are crisp. clean cut. btihe. ~
wastes no words, he knows Wha' he
wants to say, ne says it.
In an age OF. Large and spacious
words" Montaigne wrote snort Sen.
fences that would have pleased any
modern newspaper reader. ne u.
not indulge in bombastic statements
or pepper his essays with aoiec.is
Printed words. he knew: are tne sc,
ants of thought, and 1t Is Only Wy
waxing them do what we aim TO nave
them do that we show ourselves lheh
masters. ,,r;ta
IT would have every man "rl.s
what he knows, and no more sai"
Montaigne. =. ,.eoh,t
n is an admirable motto for news
ma per writing-and all other-in l'zo.
X X -
Have Won met some gentieHia"
who because he has made su,
cess In the pickle business. 'h'nH7
he knows all about every other sun
feet in the world?
Montague met him. 100. .xo
"Some of them. if they nave @
advantage Of us. that they nay 49,
palestine. will challenge pfl ,. e,
to tell us news of all the WI. ,,r;t.
sides. | would have every man WIZ
800 ha knows and no more; not
anl,, in that. but in all other suoJeCts.
..Eo, one may have partlcuiai
,,o,,ladee of the nature OF one IVei'
ma oxnerience the quality OF ONE
sorntain that in other Things hho"e
~ ,,aore than another man; WIN
nevertheless. will undertake 10 "ri'e
of all the physics t.r al
These thoughts occur In chapter ."
of the First Book, "Of the Ga nloaiies;
Montaiene rambed around IN hiS
usual fashion, one thought leading on
to the next, but all weaving INTO Tue
design. and ending on the propei
note at last. x,i,,or with
the idea that it Is foolish 10 cali q
thing impossible" largely tnrousn
Tho Story of the man who, lodged IN
iail. loudly declared. But you "a II
put me in jail. ..,u .
Nontaicne said the same tnihs q
long time ago. when he wro.e' III
chanter 26, "It Is Folly to Refer !ru.i
~. Falsehood to Our SufficiencF' inc
following classic sentence:
"Reason has taught me, mat so
resolutelv to condemn tnlhs loi
false. or impossible. is to assume nn'o
himself the advantage. to nave the
hounds and limits of Gods VIII. ana
l-of the power of our common no'he'
Nature tied to his sleeve
He was an unusual man. was ora
, Montaicne, ahead Of his age-ano
ours. II am not possessed win 'hls
common error" he said, ito judge of
others according to what am myself
T am easy to believe things differing
from myself. Though I be engaged TO
one form, | do not tie the world TO
If 7 more easily admit and re-
ceeive difference, than resemblance