Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — The Higher Duties. [ARTICLE]

The Higher Duties.

All the world complains nowadays of a press of trivial duties and engagements, which prevents their employing themselves on some higher ground they know of; but, undoubtedly, if they were made of the right stuff to work on that higher ground, provided they were released from all those engagements, they would now at once fulfill the superior engagement, and neglect all the rest, as naturally as they breathe. They would never be Caught saying that they had no time for this, when the dullest man knows that this is all that he has time for. No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts tne lesser duty above Jhe greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work on high things but he has also the ability to build himself a higher staging.—Thoreau.