Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — WISDOM OF CATUĹE MENDES [ARTICLE]

WISDOM OF CATUĹE MENDES

Men give their measure by their JMlpjlrations. .7" would be bo more cheating "'■i. 1 la things where the heart Is* not. the hand la never powerful. Proof 'of Inherent narrow-minded-ness: love for narrow-minded people. I am of those who think that the best way to see the world is to see it through the great poems. Only the fact of our life makes us think. The rest of thought Is philosophy—a hole made with a corkscrew in a cloud. "When superior men are mistaken, they are superior in that as in all else. They see more falsely than small or mediocre minds. The trouble and fear that the fores of sheer affirmation produces is not enough known. All the evil done of journalism comes of knowing how to affirm. Man is so\ profoundly vile that he makes acts which be does nbt understand villainous, because only in that way is he sure of understanding them. S—- % —i To know that one is a force is a consolation for many things that are cruel and bitter in life. Self-con-sciousness is worth more than glory. I know nothing similar to soothe a destiny. In the days when wars were between prince and prince, nations paid less of jthe expanses. At present the masses must intervene in affairs and with that system frightful destructions happen.