Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — Man's Creative Force. [ARTICLE]

Man's Creative Force.

Man’s highest virtue is always as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as‘little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry before the architect; he deserves not the name of architect except, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, suitableness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated in his own soul. All things without us nay, I may add, all things wltnln us - are mere elements; but deep in the inmost shrine of our nature: lies the creative force, which out of these can produce what they were meant to be, and which leaves us neither sleep nor rest, till In one way or another, without us or within us, this product has taken shape.—Goethe.