Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1919 — On Changing One’s Mind. [ARTICLE]

On Changing One’s Mind.

If you brag that, after you have made up your mind you never change it, you boast that you are standing still. Things are happening with a rush in th_e world these days. Forces long invisible are becoming visible. Institutions are being shaken. We have seen, •for example, the fall of the mon' archistic idea after centuries of unchallenged power. If you judge people by first impressions, and hang with bulldog stubbornness to your judgments, you are certain to make mistakes. They Lincoln wasn’t' brilliant enough to be president because he was ungainly of figure and unpolished of manner. If you judge" ideas by first impressions, you convict yourself of having an idea-proof brain. Welcome the new idea, whoever presents it to you. Check it up with your old ideas and with your experience gnd knowledge. Don’t.be afraid to say to the other fellow: “You’re right; I’m wrong.” Don’t,be afraid to think. —Louisville Herald.