Show with the high school classics by B MARGARET BOYD V 0 by marcaret boyd those who do not think to 0 o d deeply aply and they were the gre greater ater number by a hundred to oneff one ivanhoe of those who do not think so deeply there are two classes those thosa who can not think and those who den do not want to think not everybody Is able to think deeply we do hare have mental limitations though few of us ever study bard hard enough or think deeply enough to reach them for ome some people bow how over the mental limits are quickly reach reached edL such people ard aro variously classified a as moron sub and those who cannot think eo so deeply those who do not want to think are of two classes those who are laxy lazy and dislike mental exert exertion lon and those who are afraid to think jonathan swift expressed the opinion that if people did much thinking they must go mad ad and all of us recognize the fact that there are certain ideas that do not bear thinking about emerson warned of the risk attendant upon thinking when he wrote beware when the great god lets loose a thinker on this planet then all things are at risk it Is as an when a conflagration has bas broken out in a great city and no man knows what Is safe or where it will end there Is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow there I 1 Is not any literary reputation not the so no called eternal names of fame that may not be reviled and condemned the very hopes of man mm the thoughts of Ps ils heart the religion of nations the manners and morals of mankind are all at the tile mercy of a new generalization and again what Is the hardest task in the world to think I 1 bouhl put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth and I 1 cannot I 1 bleach and withdraw on this side and that I 1 seem to know what he meant who eald no man can see god face to face and live 1 before a man can think deeply without danger ta his community it Is necessary that he should be well informed confucius Is credited with the statement that thought without learning Is perilous and there Is no to doubt that much of our present social and economic unrest Is due to the thinking of men who were not sufficiently well informed when thinking on social and economic problems it Is necessary that the thinker should know not only the theoretical truth of his subject subjects but the psychology of humanity as wll |