Show the average lan one of the most calling tyrannizes tyrannies tyr annies ot modern life is that of the average man who ever saw the average man Is any one acquainted with any one who ever did has any one any reason to believe that the average man ever existed the fact of the matter is that the average man is a myth he never did and never will exist he is a philosophical abstraction a stage property of the metaphysician 4 straw man set up to be wor or reviled as the case may be yet people always bow down to him and talk in whispers about his thoughts his moods liis needs and deairas they are rejoiced when he is supposed to smile and are cast down when he frowns statisticians burn the midnight oil in order to do sums about him statesmen give up their lives to his service political economists look solemn as they take his measure physicians explain how he may keep well and preachers adjust the message of the gospel to his comprehension yet of all the myriads of men who have ever lived each one differs more or less from the supposed average man who will deliver the world from the tyrannical rule of the average man cincinnati commercial gazette |