Evening star., 1933-05-25

It Is all from the inside out, and how
can any human being explain that
process? It, has been tried for CEN
turies, and they are still explaining.
Many come to listen. but few really un-
derstand. Indeed, the man who knows,
If he attempts to eludicate the matter.
is bound down by himself. He most
commonly fails to realize that others.
, not having had his experiences, and his
precise gifts, are not able to do what
he does. in the way Of thinking and
subsequent acting. That they do as
well as they do, afterward. Is a great
tribute to them.
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Thus humanity staggers on. being led
! little way along the path by truly
great leaders, then dropping back one
by one, not lacking the capacity for it..
Yet there is hope for the individual,
any individual, If he will make an at
tempt to use his intelligence in such
matters.
1t is another Of the great problems
which must be worked out by ones
self. for ones self.
The way not to do is easier to ex-
plain than the way to do it. To walk
around the block. or go plowing
through the busy shopping centers, Is
merely one mans method. 1t may work
with you. and then again 1t may not
Nothing is of much practical value
until tried In the crucible of ones own
personality. To listen to the arguments
OF others Is to defeat everything.
Therefore, one of the best rules to be
laid down is simply this, that one must
not argue about any feature of this
matter.
And the only way to prevent falling
into this very common error Is to flee
from complaining to the wrong parties.
We considered, in this column recently,
the inability of many human beings to
listen to well considered complaints.
We did not refer at that time 10 the
common habit. on the part Of the COM
plainee, of putting up his whine to
the wrong persons.
Realizing, as most do, even If not
conscious Of 1t. that there are few per-
sons who are fair enough and big
enough to listen to the troubles of
other human beings. they do what ap-
peals to them as the next best thing,
they state their cases to any one who
will listen to them.
In the back Of their minds, as 1t were,
is the hope. never admitted, that the
person to whom they talk will in some
mysterious way carry their message to
the person or persons who could help
them. But he never does.
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The futility of such complaining at
large Is easily seen, when presented
thus, but commonly in life one does not
stop to consider that there is no use
whatsoever in talking to the wrong
party.
Talking to any one but the man who
can right wrong, saying that 1t ex-
lists, is to invite criticism and worse,
and to get nowhere rapidly.
All that 1t does is to create futile
argument. Therefore, flee 1t as OLD
fashioned persons did the devil. Such
conversation but helps to add to the
Stultification which at times overtakes
even the best and happiest workers.
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The work which tends to corrode,
at times, is best kept in separate mental
compartments. which may be more or
less successfully closed.
Those who do not learn this happy
trick seldom last long at types OF in
tellectual work which require con-
slant and unrenitting application over
the years.
Perhaps the best answer, to any one
who asks. How do you do it in tones
of real admiration, would be to. reply,
II put my work in water-tight COM
partment, as far as I can. ana keep II
there except when I am working