Editorials from the Hearst NewspapersBrisbane, Arthur
Philosophy
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Brisbane, Arthur
Editorials; Essays
Remember this very true saying and apply it in your attitude
toward the world:
"It is not enough to believe in God; one must believe in man, in
humanity and its future."
THE EYE THAT WEIGHS A TON
All our fussing and fuming about little matters must end in time.
It is a comfort to feel sure that the time will come when
questions of wages, starvation, justice, supply and demand,
finance, and all the miserable worries of to-day, from
Presidential elections to the digging of sewers, will be things
of the past.
Had we been intended for such things exclusively, we might as
well have been put in a hole in the ground or in some cool corner
of Hades to fight out our troubles. We should not have needed
for our home a beautiful globe, swinging through endless space,
bathed in sunlight or blessed with the companionship of other
suns and planets whirling with us on mysterious errands.
Man's work of to-day--the fighting, the sweating, the starving,
the cheating and lying, the miserable births and the dull,
stupid, monotonous living--will end soon. Real HUMAN life
will dawn and end the period of savage life.
Control of nature's forces will supply every man with what he
needs to keep his body alive, his soul and his brain free from
care.
Then men will cease their animal lives, cease eating to live and
living to eat. They will live to think. The brain, which
differentiates them from the animals, will give the real interest
to their lives. Mental work--art, science and things worth
while--will occupy them. ----
Does it not seem probable that when the day of organized life
comes our chief interest will be the study of the universe--the
other worlds outside of our own?
The great man will be he whose genius shall cross interstellar
space as Columbus crossed the ocean. The great newspaper editor
will be the first to get a signed statement from Mars.
The discoverer of that day will get from some older planet
information millions of years ahead of our own.
As the dull mind of the field-plodder now looks toward the great
cities--toward the vast movement outside his own little life--so
shall men look away from this little, limited, but by that time
well regulated, planet, to the mysteries and the grandeurs of the
worlds outside.
Life will be complete in those coming days. Men will look back
with pity to the time when they quarreled about little metal
money tokens, locked each other up in jail, or choked each other
to death legally.
Let us hope and believe that we may come back then to share the
pleasure of the world's mature days, since we are sentenced to
exist here to-day in the greasy, clammy period of struggle and
half-bakedness. ----
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