Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1887 — Zealous Men the Successful Ones. [ARTICLE]

Zealous Men the Successful Ones.

As far as natural endowments deter- ■ Baine,- the. zedou; 11 -n sire par eminence Tire suxTesdul oiii's. But th y have a l>. s-iting :-ia, which, being intrinsic, is, t.hi I'. i'm e, perhaps not quite --^-sin^lngi^ry—the Tvase cdgveat erratix’e minds, it is necessary to be some what partial in. order to .slices ed in affairs. Broad culture is s Idom efficient in any immediat,‘ way; narrow, intense pnrfu se aeceiaplisl.t s the hard enterprises of th 1 world, and ir everywhere at a. jrrtmiium aiiiong thaseAvlio are inter?.-.ted in getting things dona. I have a respect for bigots andq?Hrtisans, an I believe that the world owes a greHt debt to intolerant; one-sided men. It must have them; i: eMuld not itsTou>rli,-un-pleasmr’t xvbrk dene .else. Narrow men are edged men, men of single-and.de-termine! p”.’.pose;: e:.' 1 i’.i t'.cirpur-jmses-tlioy are apt to saceoctl.’ The. Jj&ofakL tiie spirits it insight, really rule all; they ar ’ not always seen to do so; they create tlie- thoughts that direct the xvorhi’s forces. But they turnover their thoughts.to armies of stirring partisans, who adjust by forea of arms the claims of opposing, truths. The pliiloEopher would prefer to v.-ait for evolution, and 1.1 things .settle -themse-1 ves-quiexlN; JjixtLllAr, re Arm er s. ' Cannot wait for this. So they organize boards, wage religious wars, and p onsly burn the ..witches. Tin r,-. is a sad waste of force in these proceedings; but men promise <to become wiser in course of time, andm sviiwai.e the machine creaks slowly along, and some progress is Coan. M. D. j . - The London Telegraph thinks the time is not far distant when every nightfarer will carry his own ray or -.electricity nbout him, .inclos-.al within the compass of a machine not larger than the wc.tch bow ticking in his pocket. Grief has been compared to a hydra; far t>vcrj' ona that dies two arejaorn.