Show S 1 I Inspiration I IBy By DR FRANK FRANI CRANE Inspiration does not riot come by the brain nor the processes of ot r reason asOn The brain is lis an analytical Instrument It criticize criticizer cize cizer takes things apart and destroys them It does not build up Michael Ilch lel Pup In says frays that the only source for lor inspiration is bodily contact with nature Instinct Is the transmUted transmitted record o of former contact but Instinct is dormant until aroused by new nev contact Man Ian has power only when he comes in touch tuch with actual I. I phenomena J It is experience then that is the mother of inspiration Creative minds do not operate by logic New ideas do not come to us along such methods but strike us like a bolt from the blue we know not notS whence Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a new S thought strikes one like the the ping o of a bullet Inthe in inthe inthe S the head S It has been said that one difference between the Saxon Anglo-Saxon and the J Un peoples is that the Anglo Anglo- Saxon Anglo axon works through pictures while the S Latin works by logic For this reason the Saxon Anglo-Saxon has the most progressive and inventive Inventive- mind All progress ss lies lies' in a distrust of ot logic and autho authority In Ta former time men were content to quote authority and man was clubbed into silence by quoting authorities to him Nowadays no matter what an a- authority has said before a man does no not believe a thing until he has learned it by experience Also le he has hag learned that logic is a frail reed to lean upon In the days of ot great reason men arrived at the most absurd absurd- conclusions The trouble was their reason was not checked up by experience Without this tills check of ot constant experiment reason is apt to be bo erratic Many laborers borers denounce capitalists and suspect them for the simple reason that they have a theory which logically compels them to do so If It they knew the capitalists better and understood their alms aims better they would be more mor lenient nt S Also in social life lite the poor distrust the rich Sometimes they ther hate them The cause of ot this is all due to the very fact that they do not know them Actual experience with any people tends to soften our Judgment It is the same eme in Ia religion Conclusions Conclusions' and end creeds that are arrived at by sheer logic are often apt to be cruel and narrow But creeds th that t are arrived at by on ones one's s 's own ex experience experience experience ex- ex and dealings with others are more liable to be be- generous hospi hospitable I. I le and liberal Experience Is liberal minded Logic Is cruel minded Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper S Syndicate |