The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-18
Great Men and Great Women.

To the Editor of The Republican.
Emerson said something like this:
'If the Almighty ever releases a giant
intellect on this planet there will be
something doing"
Great minds arise out of a necessity
for them. They are born from dis
content within themselves or with
their environment.
They all have a never-satisied
thirst for knowledge and for achieve
ment and they are all hard workers.
Great minds are self-sacrifcing.
Many of them deprive themselves of
life's comforts, pleasures and luxuries
in order to reach the heights, to ac-
complish some specific purpose that
will uplift and benefit humanity and
crafty their hearts chief desire.
We, who are selfish, who live our
ease, who are satisfied as we are, who
waste our time in idleness and frivol-
ity and our money in foolish extrava-
CANT ways and have no thought for
the welfare of others, and no civic
pride, never become great.
In ancient times the wise men and
great were limited few compared
to population, and they devoted all
their time and energy to acquire
knowledge of natures laws. They
tried to discover the hidden power in
mind. They studied the occult and
forces not visible to the layman.
They lived on the profits of others
whom they kept in ignorance and SER
vitude. 1t was the mind in men that
captivated them and they were not
concerned much for his body or how to
better clothe, house and feed human
ity in the mass.
Emerson's giant intellect has not
appeared, but wisdom once secretly
held from the masses by psychological
adopts and research scientists has,
within the past few decades been dis
seminated throughout the earth by
many superior minds, all specialists in
their chosen lines of work.
Within the past fifty years we have
seen the face of the earth changed and
beautified and the mental and physi-
cal condition of men in the mass amel-,
iorated beyond their fondest dreams.
Humanity is like an ever-fowing,
widening, deepening stream that
starts as little rivulet and every
man and woman are little tributaries
that augment the volume and value of
life and mind.
The Creator is not so much inter
ested in any one of us, or in a select
few of u.s. or in the making of one
marvellous, wonder-worker super
man as He is in raising the mental
and moral standard of all men.
1t is only when we add together the
mental and moral achievements of all
humanity in present and past time
that we can get comprehensive I'M
derstanding of infinite mind as ex-
pressed through the minds of men
as finite parts of one divine unity of
mind.
So far in our history men and wo-
men have been born with an uncon-
scious, Indifferent concern for their
future welfare or greatness of mind
and morals.
Figuratively speaking, too many
are now born with a booze bottle in
their mouths; revolver in one hand
and in the other hand book of tricks
and schemes for lust and lucre.
They are mistakenly and unwilling
ly born under a prenatal influence
that marks them for life with a mania
for misdeeds.
But mind is progressive and life has
concealed within it an upward urge
for better things-a striving towards
perfection.
Man grows more colorful and frag-
rant flowers, finer and better fruit,