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Show I j Our Perplexed Generation No previous generation hag been so perplexed as aura but none has ever been Justified in holding higher hopes If it could but reconcile itself to mad-tnr mad-tnr txid snd Judicious us of its growing grow-ing resource-, material and intellectual. intellec-tual. It la fear that holds us back. And fear Is begotten of fanorsnc and uncertainty. Rut one can as an Individual In-dividual overcome th fear of thought. One I wa safraid that men might think far too little and too timidly, for I now see that real thinking Is rare and difTicu't snd need every encouragement encour-agement In th fac of Innumerable ancient and In he-rent discouragements snd Impedimenta We must first free) our own minds and thea do what we cm t hasten others to fre theirs Tou'iKirs de l'audace! As .members of a is th-t hss required from five .-.uniret thou-:tnd to a million years to reach Its nresent Mas of lntei:i-ifcncc. lntei:i-ifcncc. there Is '.it tie reason to think thrt any t are likely to overdo th matter Jsmea Harvey Koblnsoa la I Harper's Magailn. |