Show the man one of the most galling tyrannizes tyrannies tyr annies rf modem life ia 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 reabon to be lieva that the average man ever existed ax isted tha fact of the matter is that the aver ay man is a myth ho never did and never will erist he is a philosophical abstraction a stage property of the metaphysician a straw man set tip to be wor or reviled as the case may be yet people always bow down to him and talk in whispers about hia thoughts hia moods bla needs and deairas de aires they ar i rejoiced when he is to smiley and are cast down when he arowna statisticians bum the midnight oil in order to do sonis about him men civo ap their lives to hia political economists look solemn a hey take hia measure physicians how he may keep well and preachers ad enst the message of the gospel to his comprehension yet of all the myriads of etien who have ever lived each one differs more or less from tha supposed average man who will deliver the world from the tyrannical rule of the average man cincinnati commercial gazette |