Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — The Value of Thought. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Thought.

The best men in any enterprise are those who think, those who wisely plan. The commonest article made must first be fully created In someone’s thought before it can be realized in wood or metal. When the great Faraday was announcing his discoveries in pure science which have made the telegraph, the telephone, electric lights and electric power possible, he was offered a million of dollars to stop his investigations, and devote hia~entire time and ability to making practical applications of electricity, but he refused to entertain the offer, saying that he could render mankind more service by his theoretical discoveries, and that other men could follow him with the applications, as Edison, Bush and Bell have done. The bulk of men do no thinking; enterprises with which they are connected carry them, and the results are patent on every hand. A few thoughts of a Bonaparte make Aus- • terlitz a possibility. Scores of men can execute a plan where one man can be found to make the plan and do the necessary thinking to render it a success. The most valuable men to Germany In the Franco-Prussian war were Von Moltko and Bismarck, who did the thinking, while inferior men like the Crown Prince and Prince Charles executed what Von Moltke had planned.