Evening star., 1932-10-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

dreaming Of Justice, and they have
never attained either, except in rare in
stances
The world does not speak of "pure
Justice" because justice must be pure,
to be justice, but the expression "pure
intellect" Is used to denote the think
ing powers unhampered.
The question Is: Can thought ever be
unhampered?
Some men take q pride in holding the
emotions in subsection, as II there
were something shameful about them.
Pure intellect, II 1t could be attained,
would be pure at the cost of coldness.
1t would be inhuman. It would hold
no love.
Pure intellect Is scarcely desirable in
q world wherein the emotions furnish
the primary springs of conduct, say
what We will to the contrary.
The best that can be done Is to use
reason to induce reasoned conduct,
after the emotions have given the in
itial direction. A thinking man ought
net to be false to his basic emotions.
These hold what Is commonly called
conscience" and "the still small
voice" The pride of intellectually
telnpts the world to call these pure
reason" but more often than not they
are the children of the emotions, Of
which no man should be ashamed.
Men delude themselves into thinking
their lives and their actions are Or
dered according to the stern dictates of
intellectually. 1t is a pleasing thought.
but with most Of us it won't hold
water. Nor on the other hand, can
we say that the emotions are the sole
rulers.
What we do, and what we think, are
conditioned by old thoughts and emo
tons perpetually at war with new
thoughts and the latest emotions.
Life is warfare between a large
body of emotions of the past, sur
mounted by veneer of thinking Of
the present, in conflict with a lesser
body of emotions of the present held
in check by slightly thicker veneer of
thought.
ESQ much may the progressive man
pride. himself on, and little more.
His boast may be that he sees clearly,
and Is not given to baliyhoo, even in
talking about himself to himself.
The more honest picture man
paints Of himself the less inclined he
will be to feel that he knows it all.
And when he arrives at that conclu-
sion, he will find another one at hand,
that he doesn't know anything.
Between the two he must hesitate,
according to his temperament. As We
have attempted to say, the less a
man knows, the more inclined he is to
think that he knows it all, and, con-
versely the more he knows the less he
will think he knows.
The former gentleman will not hesi-
tate at all; he will know it all, and
know he knows it all. Accordingly, an
election offers no difficulty to him. He
votes according to his wishes, and lets
it go at that.
The others, who like to do a bit of
thinking on the side, WILL hesitate long
before making their decision. They
will be inclined to sympathize with the
honest bus driver. who said, solemnly.
I'm going to vote for the last one !
hear"
On any matter whatsoever there are
so many sides which must be taken
into consideration.
The fairer a man tries to be. the
more trouble he piles up for himself.
for he compelS himself to listen to all
sides of an argument, to balance and
weigh facts and theories to the best
of his ability and maybe his ability is
not quite all that he would like it to
be, to say nothing Of the opinion OF
others
So many human beings hold poor
opinion of others in ratio, it would
seem, to the glowing opinion they have
of their own merits
Show us an honest man who con-
fesses the difficulty he has in facing
problem, any problem, and we will
show you one who has more than the
average intelligence.
He knows the pull of hopes, the lure
CT ''our side; he attempts to offset
their attraction by the use of such in
telligence as he possesses; and often
he does nothing but get himself into
maze, in which his honesty of pur-
pose is of little help. Yet he is the
man upon whom all depends. Let us
take off our hat to the great Amer
ican voter. He has our sympathy.