Evening star., 1932-04-18

His sentences might be disjoined and
battered, changed somewhat In GER
tain cases to fit the pattern OF the new
mosaic, but nevertheless they retained
enough of the master to carry MS nign
conviction. He was one Of the worlds
greatest.
Every reader was to know, as this lady
knew, that here was something excep-
tional. Not every one was to. know why.
And thus many a reader does ano Wln
believe that the entire erect OF the
work is due to the man whose name II
on 1t as author.
An exactly analogous effect would
have been achieved by William 1yer
Page with his Americans Greed, tnat
sterling compilation of trenchant
phrases from the great documents Of
American history II he had failed to
indicate from what sources he had
drawn every word.
Mr.. Page, however, carefully so lndi-
Gated, and no school child or elder
who recites the creed fails to realize the
sources of it. Truth Is always beautiful
even II 1t requires foot notes.
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We have given this incident at length
because 1t illustrates so beautifully the
the onslaught to the enemy
The mysterious thing about them Is
that they so invariably put poor con-
struction on what their enemies say
and do.
Perhaps this is not mysterious at all,
but simply part of the necessities OF
the case.
If one must find fault, one must find
something to find fault about.
And if there is nothing, or at least
nothing quickly apparent, one must
think UP something immediately, or
make UP something on the spur OF the
moment, must one not?
Putting the worst rather than the
better construction on the motives OF
others Is an easy thing to do.
First, you have to be suspicious; Sec
ond. you must doubt yourself and your
own abilities and knowledge; third, you
should be jealous, and, fourth, you must
be afraid that some one will find you
out.
The Napoleonic combines four Of the
worst traits of human kind-fear. sus-
picion, jealousy and doubt. The growth
Of this breed, honeycQmbed throughout
the social structure of the world, no
doubt has helped on the universal de-
preston.
The guilty flee when no man pur-
sueth," said a Wise Book, but the
righteous are bold as an lion"
If guilt is in ones own heart, II the
desire for fleeing II the understanding
OF the necessity for flight is present in
the mind-the very first sounds which
greet the still air of the inner places OF
mind and heart will throb like the
great drums Of doom.
There Is no human being, however
good, who has not at some time trans
gressed in some way or other and who
has not, although perhaps In a very
small way, understood what Solomon
meant when he wrote, THE guilty flee
when no man pursueth but the
righteous are as bold as an lion
It's a great sentence, one Of the
greatest of all. If people would
attempt to understand it and then
live up to such understanding OF
it as they had acquired, there can be
little doubt that suspicion, jealousy
doubt and fear would not find the
lodging places they now find so easily
in so many human breasts. The world
is i'll at ease because of guilt, not SC
much a guilt implanted at the begin
nlnB as quit constantly DullL up In the
very processes of living. You can't be
unfair and be happy. Typical Napo-
leonics are not happy. They may read
the story of the Great Man. but they
scarcely will take to heart the lesson
his life teaches, becarse they do not
possess the ability or the desire to apply
it to themselves. The world goes round
and round. and the truth is daily placed
before millions, but they think it Is fol
other people. Carry the attack to the
enemy! Run him before he runs you!
But one thus fees, even when attacking