Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1914 — The Humility Fallacy. [ARTICLE]

The Humility Fallacy.

"Humility, as a virtue, is fast disappearing, and that’s a very good thing,” said Mayor Rolph in San Francisco. "Our fathers übed to preach humility to us —respect for our superiors, contentment with our humble station, and so forth. . “ ’He who is down need fear no fall,’ a humility exponent said to me, solemnly, one day. " ’Quite right,’ said I, 'but he’s sure to get sat on and walked over.' ”