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“For what shall it profit.a
man, if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?
“Or what shall a man give in
e;:change for his soul?”’
—St. Mark, Bth Chapter, 86:37 Verses.
———==m ARCUS AURELIUS,
| Roman Emperor, the
| | noblest mind that ever
ruled\ human beings,
said that man is “‘a lit
' tle soul, carrying around
a corpse’’—the soul
being the mind, the corpse the body in
which it lives, moving while the soul is in
it, dead and inert when the soul leaves.
Aristotle, who,was the noblest thinker
as Marcus Aurelius was the noblest ruler,
said: ‘“The spirit, like the body, grows
old.”
Having in your mind three texts—one
from the Bible, one from the Roman Em
peror, and one from the Greek philoso
pher—study this picture. It shows you
life as it starts, the soul dominating, and
life as it ends, the soul like the bedy
grown old, and near the end of the long
journey, dragging its corpse.
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This picture of childhood is taken from
a poster-advertising Maeterlinck’s play, ,
‘“‘Betrothal’’—the little picture of the old
man is added to tell the rest of the story,
when, in this country, the little boy
“turns out a great success’’ and the
newspapers print his picture when he
dies aud tell how he got his first dollar.
The world presents no sadder contrast
than the “ne shown in this pictnre.
The boy s<es, enjoys and possesses all
the beauty of the world, the sky, the wide
universe outside. His mind is fresh and
free, noble and pure.\ His imagination
untrammeled, travels with the wind that
blows the clouds. He lives, despite his
poverty, as human beings undoubtedly
were meant to live and will live one day.
In his youth, all is happiness and hope,
and in his old age, if it were the right
kind, he could finish and lie down to the
long sleep saying with David ‘‘The Heav
ens declare the glory of God and the firm
ament showeth his handiwork.”’
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Look at this boy’s face, though you may
be old and tired yourself, you know of
what he is dreaming; you remember your
own dreams. .
You see the man at the bottom of the
picture and ybu know that this boy in
our American civilization is headed for
an old age like that of this old man, or
worse gtill, headed for an old age in which,
on a clerk’s payroll, he will be one of the
cogs in the machine through which this
old man piles up his money and the profit
that interests him.
Look at this picture, be warned, and
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monly called ‘“makin R g NG BAN7ARE et b e
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outh, barefooted n “success.’’ picture T
the wide sky for it and poor, with the whole be e %0
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problem, bu,-m-ngea" ZUYSuit of money hcw'l;:ation. For & mve" ?Cumulated money---th 5
up his life , has been buildi an, destroyi . ---that w
and his . uildin roying h e call su
s g, e . s sou gy ccess.
oul in the process, but ’Z’;’O..Ymg others, helpi’fga;'d kllllmg his imag
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thing to show for it e world’s |
fight to get your freedom. Save yourself
from poverty by self-control, and save
while you are young. For poverty is the
worst of all curses since it means slavery.
And save yourself from the fate which,
next to poverty, is the worst, that of the
old man who began as this boy begins, and
ends with only one thought, how to keep
and how to gét more.
Fight for your freedom and try to keep
'~ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919.
your mind young to enjoy it. The earth
is yours, if you will have it 80, and all the
thoughts, the mental freedom given to the
world by great minds are’ yours written
in the books and free at the libraries.
He who can see the world intelligently,
the hills, the clouds, the sunshine, the
beauty of the sky at night, who can read
intelligently and share the thoughts of
great men that live in books, can say truly:
“TI am no man’s slave, no man commands
me, yet I earn what I eat,”’ and he is the
happy man. .
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You see the bitter criticism on our
civilization that this picture presents.
You must see also the other side, and
know that the human race and its welfare,
like the welfare of a single individual,
must be judged as a whole. No sevarate
person or epoch tells the st;ry
There are beautiful islands in the
- palm trees and flowers grow upon
them, sunshine and happy life are there.
They rest on coral reefs that were gradn
ally built up through thousands of cen
turies by tiny creatures working below
the water, in the dark, not knowing that
they were laying the foundation of a beau
tiful island.
- The old man in the picture has worked
in the dark, meanly, like ome of those
builders of a coral reef. He has not known
it, but he, in his bank, his factory, his
money saving, his oppression of the poor
perhaps, his heartlessness, has been bufld
ing the foundation of a future magnificent
civilization. It will come, it will justify
the sacrifice of all of the lives and all the
happiness, even the transformation of
youththmMnhtmmm
into dwarfed and dwindled, mean old age.
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__There seems little left of this old man
a.bout to drop into the grave and leave
lls'money. But there is a great deal left,
to live on after his name is forgotten and
his heirs have squandered his savings.
If he has built factories they will pro
vide work and material for thousands. If
he has appropriated an invention and
swindled the inventor, he has develbp‘ed
the thought, made it practical and useful
and done for the world what the inventor
could not do.
If he has monopolized the wealth of the
soil, of industry, or of public monopoly,
rstentatiously giving away a little and
noarding a great deal, he has helped to or
ganize, systematize and develop that
which eventually the people will own to
gether, and use together, for the happi
ness of all.
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You look from the car window as you
cross the Western plains. You see the
ancient trafl of the pioneers, and perhaps
a few remaining bones of animals that
pulled the ‘‘prairie schooner.’”” You see
fragments of skeletons and know that hu
man beings hauled so far went on leaving
the skeleton behind and created the mag
nificence and beauty of California.
And you know that the animal s%eleton
lying there represents useful work,
though the creature may have died of
starvation and thirst.
This old man and thousands like him,
scattered here and there in our financial
civilization, are like the bones of dead ani
mals scattered along the trail of progress.
Their souls die in their bodies, killed by
starvation and hunger of the spirit. And
the world's work goes on beyond them, as
the pioneer’s family went on beyond the
abandoned dead animal.
The boy in this picture speaks of the
future hope of the world. 2
And the old man represents the present
false and brutal, but necessary, system
that will be the foundation of eivilization
and real human life through millions of
happy years left on this planet to the hn
man race.