Show I 1 r for the t h e deseret aws IMP ORIANCE orlance OF SELF KNOWLEDGE man aitt tt 11 v hj seif self an in Z ong jus bill hill was bald sald v gilad ad an 0 th tt isell seit ly it if ih chuo 0 o theaven rf r lead mabl mani script piel POEM roem ll atho fa b man is bf blessed sed s ed with intelligence mth mah ith f t ties calab capable IK or of almost an endless beshe el is he miserable and unhappy it some bome bomes bomas is S tern attorn is not followed whereby a Cass c assirie ass ifie 1110 lon ion ensues andi and be has his resources lore rei tily illy lly ily at hand band and under wider his hia control the effii ot ut we the greate greatest it gen ua us amounts to tut very atti ti where method is 13 not followed f r ei bratic and wati wail wandering dering from one flower to another exhausting scarcely any of their trea dred tired sweets i 1 beams but bull for or a tima time like a comet frightening rather than conc g and accomplishing 0 little if any good life composed of farce and tragedy at times umea wi a melo dragat c sentimentality is 13 a stud of more importance than many ima imagine t ine lne a study unexhausted by centuries of cical inquiry every moment opp mg 11 g up new wonders ponders and new nev soura s B ot i i formation in lit g aea ies F es the acme aa me yet understood differently by ci i ferent an ail amalgamation of sc selfish elfish a gel get erous crous P pil pi isi 1 si i is of 0 epicurean did di aid d stoic sole st I 1 ii inci ples oi ol b h greatest heroism and the i t A abject ahert seT servility of ol abril abnegation gation gatlon j fc ir lf denia denla anti aim a brutal 1 sc se fish ence lid it itier is balancing ait alt these theae appo f fres tes in a ev 1 14 each its ita proper weight without it hutli an undue ii influence fluence that mistakes are aie made and men i i r jafie are inre m ire or less alike the genera general I 1 principles in r of ot or niza tion are s milar similar in all but assigns pas yas assions as siona slona a d faculties may ma vary in int intense ense 1 ness ess and vi vior or some natures nt urea are torpid and liow alow of con coi not easily roused to aiger alger aigernon nor v ivin lvin way to passions daf naf and still less les to iri tri nul i matlon mation nation to reflection orto orta or to thought in fac tac die qualified to ruminate whilst of uis is are burn ng us as the tropics as evid in n iwago atlon and conception and as lapid ii in as tb tha the olbers others arel aret dull duil an i 1 offices again dain ran ren reng ranie 6 from one grade to an other to co 0 tir tit extremes or are perhaps an abnormal ab c abu atlon of or both governed more bab by instinct iustini t tha it by reason but bui ut tuch tn fh varying thus thug ic in intellectual and phys phars c cit it capacity jl the same leaven leaten actu ates all ana aoi if it we thorough thoroughly 1 y comprehend one i beart heart part oart on soul sul sui and oje oie 01 e pa physical organization we may boast somewhat of our car know lege leege of and of the secret spring which ac ae u urotes tes its move nien s but even in ii this we euile culLe drawing drabin P deduct deductions ious from what we koa and judging of things icings oftentimes guessed gue zue stid at yet not literally correct it is and beneficial opening i n g up new paths of duies dules du les leb and anti streng strengthening the heart by coia contemplation tion cf of c f fu ure rewards if we confine our creed strictly to what nhat ne we real really I 1 y know we certainly have left but a small email field for reflection and we cast out the major part if not all of the principles and hopes that create happiness many blany confound or mistake the th deanin meaning of knowledge classing meral moral or mental certain certainty t y with it thus mis mii applying misapplying a term a and nd by bi arbitrary compulsion pu ting a meaning to io it contrary to fact A man inan may be morally certain of the illness of a proposition but that certainty cirtain ty does not a mount amount to a knowledge though he inight might be willing to venture almost anything uncia upon its truthfulness self sett knowl knowing lee iee is difficult of or attainment though to a c certain e ertain degree not impo impossible bible sibie we an however however too proud proad to submit even tva tua vba seif belt 9 trying our utmost to the contrary to clear ourselves of fault thus hiding what should be eradicated we are more lenient to ourselves than we would or could be io 0 o another and by this means we contract a species of silent fal subversive to candor and undermining by slow ap preaches in its effects the structure of principle and virtue there are homeier ho beien weier some the reverse of this and it contrition if inward pain and almost anguished desperation could win atonement for direll direlle tIon cUon then would they have paid the penalty they look upon the faults ot of others more leniently by reason of their own failings tailings instead ot of scorning the they pity I 1 of wounding by reproach they take tie lesson to themselves hopt hoping ing to gain from it superior power to overcome we are arc most of us wondrous wise wipe in our estimation and for one who undervalues under values me b worth and abid hia his abilities there are that overrate jiem alem crould could we but see ourselves as others see us asi ass It would from roni many matty a blunder free tree us bus is iqs it is oftener bustling mediocrity that over rates itself than real genius which needs no puffing no trifling with principle to raise it in the estimation of the good and the worthy whose good will is to be de desired As the poet says we can seldom see our own faults and follies but those of others are most glaring in picking the moat from a brothers eye we pass by the beam in our own and thus through lack of reflection of thought and of self knowledge we blunder bluner on from day to day perhaps to the end ot of our lives without I 1 properly appreciating one single blessing we possess or understanding a single duty we should perform what makes the steam engine exert such a wonderful power it is by the concentration ans of parts arts were the same quantities of water and of heat instead of being concentrated or confined to a certain area ail ati allowed owed to waste themselves in be surrounding atmosphere no result would follow so it is with the mind it needs a concentration of energy and of talent to ever accomplish anything of importance or of value to the human family with the lever to assist and aid ability there is scarcely any j thing thin impossible impo hible nible scarcely anything but what we can reasonably expect without it we may look in vain for blessings our howera are wasted on empty nothings ge and a mor morbid id misanthropy Toba us even of peace self knowledge will enable us to more readily accomplish this thia concentration method will beget fact ity ltv and pliability and they in turn will obtain for us an increase of strength thus we see present advancement achi achl achieves eves evea or secures future pleasure and anh the ability and desire to do good 1 in incising c in durability and strength opens after triumphs to D nur our ur view can we acquire a knowledge of ourselves we can to td a greater or lesser leaser extent as our observing powers are acute or obtuse as we can comprehend motives or judge actions but even the smallest advance in this knowledge will increase our facilities and enlarge our vantage grun grounds ds reason is the greatest boon we can boast and by the proper eler exercise cise cige or an undue neglect we either make or mar our future life to mistake passion for reason interest for exercise of judgment m ent selfishness for in depend ence of character for forms forma ms an anomaly byno byro by jio meang means uncommon but in effect very j sive t eliberal tl liberal iberal enlightened or philosophical candor which should guide us in our u 1 lions and out investigations after atler truth did d I 1 we rightly understand ourselves we woud would wonder gull still more atthe agthe at the tha beneficence and power of god wonder wo boube iid ild Ube be disclosed tp to our investigations and we would each dv dav day lose a portion of that exclusive In which our spirits are more or less clothed arid and we would be less section sectional ais als less leps national in our views and more desirous dt sirous airous of 0 the general good goot of our species the mystery that has shrouded the dincov erlea enes of philosophers the speculations of mor arsts is in consequence pr the selfish desire for fame which really defeats ils its object in to attain it and in ite the fear bf af enlightening others has it buried burled itself andeits theories and the fame of today to day ham hag robbed it of future existence and prolongation indifference is not a virtue any more than a too forward and find the thet mean between the two is certainly the most beneficial and wie course to pursue inclining somewhat to 10 one or the other as circumstances warrant and exigencies call for we have beard men say we know ourselves sufficiently to know when we do right and when we do wrong we comprehend our duties and we them to the best of dur our kled knowledge e 1 I 1 perhaps they do but that man who ever lre lie r at t all ali a umes times and in all places does thi this s is certainly beyond the bounds of common y we can comprehend desire and earnestne earnestness gs in the pursuit of truth but we doubt tite the proficiency or those who do no wrong 7 whose actions are never discordant with jul justice tice tide self knowledge is certainly the first step towards this proficiency when attained self conquest will have been beell won and and an end ebly ess career of felicity ia is ours su subject to no extraneous circumstance and liable to none of the maris wails of mundane life more ennobling than the gory conquests of an alexander whose greatest glory was built upon the anguish and the destruction des ruction of the hopes of at myr lads of his fellow creatures whose homes lp he had made desolate and whose aspirations aspiration s bad had been wilted beneath the ensanguined a tide of a mad mans fame I 1 |