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Show "Take It Aisy." One cannot travel in Ireland without perceiving that the so many horsepower and perpetual catching of trains theory of life is not oau that is accepted by the. Irish people, and I do not think it ever ivill be. Their religion, their traditions, their chief occupations, their temperament, tempera-ment, all of which I suppose are closely allied, are opposed to it. The saying, "Takeitaisy, and if yon can'e take it aisy take it as ai6y as you can," doubtless represents their theory of life, and, tor my part, if it were a question either ot dialectics or of morals, mor-als, I would sooner have to defend that view of existence than the so many horsepower one. So far from a wise man getting all he can out of himself in one direction, he will, it seems to me, rig-Idly rig-Idly and carefully abstain from doing so in the interests of that catholic and harmonious development which requires that he Ehould get a little out of him df in every direction. One would not like to assert that the hulk of the Irish people are "harmoniously "harmo-niously developed. " But neither, if I may be permitted to say sn, are the English or the Scotch people, and as Jn reality all three probably err by lob-sided lob-sided activity or lobsided inactivity, it still remains to be seen whether too much perpetual catching of trains or too much taking it "aisy" is, on the whole, he wiser course and the less insane ia-terpretation ia-terpretation of the purport and uses of life. Blackwood'g Magazine. |