Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — Something Ideal in All. [ARTICLE]

Something Ideal in All.

Every man is Idealistic; only it so often happens he has the wrong Ideal. Every man is incurably sentimental, but unfortunately, it is so often a false sentiment. When we talk, for instance, of some unscrupulous commercial figure, and say that he would do anything for money, we slander him very much. He would not do anything for money. He would do some things for money; he would sell his soul for money, for instance; and, as Mlrabeau humorously said he would be quite wise "to take money fttp muck.” He would oppress humanity for money; but then It happens that humanity and the soul are not things that he believes in; they are not hie Ideals. But he has his own dim and delicate Ideals; and he would not violate these for money. He would not drink out of a soup tureen, for money. He would not wear his coattails lp front, for money. He would not spread a report that he had softening of the brain, for money.—Gilbert K. Chesterton.