| Show the man one of the most galling tyrannizes tyrannies tyr annies ol 01 modern life is that of the average man who ever saw the average man Is any ono acquainted with anyone 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 a straw man set up to bawor reviled as the case maybe yet people always bow down to talk hi whispers about his thoughts his moods his ads and desires they are rejoiced when he is supposed to smile and are cast down when be frowns statisticians lurn the midnight oil in arder to do sums abo nt liim men give up their lives to his service political economists look solemn as they take bis measure physicians explain bow be may kaep 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 |
