Show 1 JH Ui l C l 1 ri i I T. T I i i i i i r rA John J ohn I Locke L 0 eke I 0 11 it I arlson I A great Englishman said If If we will rightly estimate what we w call 11 and evil wil we w shall find it lies bes much In eom P 41 t 4 0 Fords Ford's II 11 Philosophy I f FORD thinks that men of past ages had airplanes automobiles radios and other twentieth century devices Their passed and were forgotten he but nonetheless they had reached as a a. stage of scientific development as we i Jn addition he lie believes that this happe hap hap- I y pe l not once but millions millions of times i t n souls of those earl early scientists and andare andare 1 s 's are arc about in itt the world today perI per per- I through uncounted generations by of reincarnation H t If is rather doubtful jf if Mr Ford will find i tY anthropologists or archaeologists to 1 ee with him Most reputable authorities on subject hold that behind the earliest darkness there lie He i of prehistoric only unrecorded of evolution from beast- beast od ff Jf So niost most of us probably will look at this expression e of Mr Fords Ford's views as one of s t ose tr aberrations like the peace ship and ind will say something like Hes hes he's a great f industrialist but when he lie gets out of his own field he sure has dizzy ideas But instead of laughing at this notion of his is as strange or fetched far-fetched we might profitably profit ably ponder on his views as an index to his philosophy After all what is he saying Simply that this world is a wonderful miraculous place t than n we ordinarily dream that it contains secrets that we can no more than guess at hidden forces that cannot be bei i explained by any of our usual processes And that when you ou stop to think about It Is just about what the worlds world's greatest t thinkers inkers have been trying to tell us for cen cen- That Mr Ford should join in the cho chorus is is surprising perhaps but not necessarily e. e X it It has become quite the thing lately to look ori ott the world and everybody in it as a avast vast bit of machinery machinery complicated complicated and p perplexing per perplexing per per- rpt r- r pt perhaps but machinery nevertheless functioning u in a way that was foreordained ageS ageS' ae a ago o and explainable in a perfectly mat- mat fer fact Ter-of-fact tact of-tact way vay from start to finish f It is is- only natural that that attitude should r N ow g fow since our every step is a attended by the b. b whirring of wheels somewhere about us But for some reason Mr Ford who has had more moredo moret t- t Ip Jt do with this spread of machinery than any oilier living man doesn't share in it 1 j He lie still thinks that we hive in a miraculous f 1 a arid a world of wonders and portents in ilich no dream can be too glittering no noie pe ie too high in which men do not die and p to dust like worn out cog cOK wheels in a ai ar r i clory but live on forever to continue in ini i fie Ie IC work of liftin lifting the race up to the level hItCh it has glimpsed in its greatest moments r t And that instead of proving that he lie ought f i 0 stick to his own field and let philosophical i i speculations peculations pe peul ul alone may prove that he is more morey y f I and level-headed level than we have given him credit for In A t machine age this contain tain of industry is not so enmeshed in the thel Workaday l world that he lie has no time tine for conJ contemplating con con- J n the eternal mystery of life We Ve buld all lead richer lives by being more p philosophic iJ as 0 phi A I. I |