Show ABOUT SELF RESTRAINT control and add restraint of the thinking powers are especially necessary because no dpn pride de is more fixed and arrogant than that of mentality the purse puree proud nian man way may he be ignored pride in personal appearance may le he suppressed by a laugh but the air of superiority of the man who thinks himself of finer mind than his follows fellows lis is exasperating to every one and of no use to its possessor every one dislikes the person perdon who is given to laying down the law and regards his arrogance as a sign of weakness benjamin franklin one of the most remarkable minds of our revolutionary period or of any age attributed his success in influencing others to his custom of so modestly and deftly conveying his ideas that his hearers heare rei imagined them their own and by treating all men as if they were mentally his equals control auti and restraint are also necessary to save men of reasoning habit from sitting tn in judgment on their fel fellowmen fello w men rhe F he true judicial j u d acial bacul facu 1 ty is probably the highest attain human never to is reached by men who indulge open ly or secretly in the amusement tor such it is of judging those around them on the basis of some single act or trait of character that this fault is alarmingly common is well known it is easy to proceed mentally through successive deductions to a conclusion when only a single point is considered dered but hu human mau nature is of too complex a quality equality ta to be disused disposed af in such manner the man who adopts it has not the method of the judge U dge but of that pestilent type of public prosecutor who bends all his hia efforts toward conviction I 1 ignoring nori tig all evidence on in the other a side do whether in the present age such self made judges do any great harm to others is open to doubt for experience has taught modern civilization so to distribute and limit power that no man can now assume mastery of the lives and fortunes of others as to the individuals themselves however there is a terrible suggestion in the divine command judge jude not that ye be bot judged but the most important end to be gained by control and restraint of the reasoning faculties is the direction and confining of thought to subjects at hand and really demanding it persons sometimes are heard beard to complain that their lot in lite life is so cast that they find nothing tor for their minds to do but they always are wrong proper sense of duty will impel anyone to direct all his action by thought instead of impulse and demands upon the thinking powers are quite as imperative pera tive to people of active conscience in the cottage of the laborer or the shop of the mechanic as in the study of the pastor or the cabinet of the president |