Deseret Evening News | 1908-01-02 | Page 4 | Living by Rule

LIVING BY Imy RULE BULB Harpers Weekly What Whal a world we should have If It It Il wore Were made up tip merely of ot the tho conven conventional What Vh t a II dead would fall fidi Uko liko u a II pall pail OVum ov llio The scientists the thu artists ls the thinkers thinker the talkers tho tim writers all au those who keep us UI alert and awake the tho face taco of ot virtue and of 0 truth nay may tin by b day unveiling new beauties breaking up lines and tie no new lights heartening us on with tho hope of IC higher vision these bring In upon upun us tie surging new now life lire day i by y day And then tile lie folk who live IIvo by rule spread It nil mill out lit III It nicely Into the right places dIe dis discard card what Is useless and absorb what whal U Is i valuable Tho The great gleat danger dangel of ot tho ho votaries s of conduct by V searchers after afler knowledge Is limita limitation ion tion ot of sympathy deadness of ot Because their rules work vork out opt fairly well seli In their limited pursuits they thoy tho grow row to 10 believe that they thoy have fathomed the universe and that the scheme of ot life lito begins and ends with them and their little laws The danger of or knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge Is that ot of leaving the tho Immediate need altogether In the tho lurch while it wanders round In a maze searching for tor to reasons and sources And In the end ond which ot of these two shall reach roach first the gates of ot eternity Who pursues l right conduct needs continuous growth and readjustment of ot circumstances and wh pursues right knowledge needs need pause pauso to set his knowledge into nuo shape lest It lose loso actuality Knowledge must draw lines in the tho visible concrete world and right conduct must Keep fluid and ready read at ot all moments to flow Into new moulds and when this Is iii done dono we have wisdom