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Show A NEW TYPE OF MAN From tho Frn. A new typo or man has boon discovered discover-ed . . Scionco has placed him on tho slldo, anallzod, diagnosed and duly labolod him. Ho is known ns "tho intollectls." Tho typo is as clearly dorinod as tho paranoiac, tho dipsomaniac or tho kleptomaniac klepto-maniac . . Tho lntollectlc is a by-product or civilization. civili-zation. Ho Is a man who lives on his roor, as compared with tho opposlto typo which lives In its basomont. Ho has a superstructure but no base. Ho knows ovcrythlng but the obvious, and can do anything but mako a living. Savage, barbaric and plonoor people novor produco a man or this class. Ho scorns to bo a sort or sport or civilization, civiliza-tion, ono or Nature's llttlo lronios. Ho has intollect, but is doriciont in common-Bonsc. common-Bonsc. To that dogroo scionco rightly classirios him as a doroctivo. Tho intellect Is no guido In matters or gotting a living or dealing with the primal and basic things in lire. Dreed enough lntolloctlcs, and tho raco would dlo. In Tact, with tho pure typo or intcl-Icctic, intcl-Icctic, Nature goos on a strlko and rc-ruscs rc-ruscs to roproduco Nature hates tho lntollectlc as sho hates a vacuum, and, as a matter or Tact, that's Just abovo what an lntollectlc is. Ho Is a void a vacuous, viscous vision or a thing never seen on land or soa. Childron born In tho country or poor parents, or in villages whoro ovory ono works ror a living, run vory small risk indeed or evolving Into lntolloctlcs. Tho product comos Trom tho cltlos. To a great dogroo tho habit or paying honors and doing dororonco to cortaln proros-slons proros-slons has no doubt had a good deal to do with evolving the lntollectlc. Always and rorover, tho true typo or lntollectlc Is a parasite usually a ro-spectablo ro-spectablo mondlcant. Ho lives orr the labor or other people. Ho wastes, ho dostroys, he consumos ho does not croatc. Tho saroty or tho race lios In tho Tact tho intolloctlc has been locatod, and tho psychic domain that ho Inhabits has boon, in dogroo, mopped and tho liro-buoys placod. Wo havo boon duly warned. Tho paranoiac may know a solzuro and work dire mischief, or sudden doath. Tho Intolloctlc Is Just as dangorous, and perhaps per-haps moro so, becauso tho poison that ho distills Is Insidious and slow In Its action. Ho is tho man who upholds tho rollgio-modico-logal fetish, and sproads its hale ml Influence. Orton ho has a high standing In good socioty, and his dictum Is quotod as law. And thus docs ho cnslavo thousands and slmcklo tho minds or multitudes. Any man who is unfamiliar and out or sympathy with tho slmplo, llttlo, common, ovory-day things or lire, who Is not In touch with the multltudo and' whoso hoart does not go out to tho many, is on tho prosorvo or tho Intolloctlc, and Is a good man to lot alono. No mattor how plaus-Iblo plaus-Iblo his arguments, glvo him absent treatment. treat-ment. Flee any man who does not havo commonsonae, no mattor how groat his mental attainments. Saroty lios In living Uko a poor man, no matter how much money you havo; and above all things, bring your childron up to be useful, to porrorm tho necessary tasks or lire, novor to bo abovo doing good, plain, old-rashlonod work . . Any ono who uses the term "monlal" is touched with lnteHoctlclsm. Thoro aro no monlol tasks. Tho nci ossary is the sacrod, and tho userul is tho divlno. Keep your root on tho earth, oven though your hood is in tho clouds. Do not bo oxcluslvo, and set yourseir apart, as something special and peculiar. Tho high and lorty attitude wo orton sec In tho poet, the artist and tho musician all token tho derective . . Have Intellect, or courso, but build It on a basis or common-sense. |