Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — EVERY MAN TO HIS LAST. [ARTICLE]

EVERY MAN TO HIS LAST.

Because you are an excellent carpenter, declared Socrates in his famous Apologia at Athens, it does not therefore follow that yon are the wisest of men. Yet the tendency persisted and persists, and Alexander Cruden, a great maker of concordances, was found offering his services to the British government, over 150 years ago, as “corrector of morals,” just as many rich business men in England today are offering their services to the government “under the conviction that they can do in one day what an expert can barely manage in three. —Christian Science Monitor.