Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
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page 113 of 366 (30%)
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monkey smallness; he walks flat on his feet.
But beyond that he has naught else to thank material nature for. All the rest comes to him from imagination. Marvellous work she performs. She takes naked man with his low forehead, with his gruntings and whistlings through his teeth, and makes of him what man was meant to be. Very slowly she works, but ceaselessly. Her task is not nearly ended. At her first glimmerings man's real life begins. He learns from her to add wood to a fire. No monkey ever did it. That stamps him a man. Soon, with her help, he leaves the earth and travels off ten thousand million miles into space. He counts the suns in the Milky Way; travels in the air, under the water; harnesses lightning, controls nature. By IMAGINATION he is made CAPTAIN of this earthen ship on which he travels through space. IMAGINATION separates Archimedes, working at his problems in the sunlight, from the vile soldier that slaughtered him. Shakespeare rattling his ale pot and Johanna, the ape, shaking her bars at the Zoo are alike, save for difference of imagination. SELF-CONTROL to balance you. JUSTICE to guide you. |
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