Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-08 | Page 6 | Making Life worth While

so deeply is the hu man impulse toward action and growth rooted in our natures aa that we would find condition in which there was nothing to by PROF ALBION SMALL lo 10 the sincerest hell why if heaven were as it is pictured a t aven of perpetual rest and we all went there we would organize a strike in two weeks and have the conditions changed we know to day that there is no such thing as irretrievable ruin by the knowledge and power we have we can rebuild what is destroyed had a flood like that which swept away galveston devas bated rome at the time of manus or sulla there would have been no Augu age had athens been razed by earthquake and fire such as struck san francisco at the time of the battle of salamis there would have been no age of pericles life is secure genuine strong and vital only in proportion to our ability to sacrifice those things which in the present are dearest to us to obtain those things in the future which are more worth while than the things we have sacrificed this principle is dangerous in so far as we have the choice as to what is worth the sacrifice and our decision in such cases rests our happiness and our destiny