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Show A Modern Discovery. A writer quoted in a recent number of the Literary Lit-erary Digest announces the discovery of a spiritual quality in man that, it would seem, has heretofore hereto-fore remained sadly unrecognized. It is the possession posses-sion of this spiritual quality, quoths he, that boosts men to the highest pinnacle of achievement and success; its loss that relegates them to hopeless failure and obscurity. No man, he asserts, should aspire to political preferment who is not endowed, to a more or less marked degree, with this mysterious quality, and he cites as recent illustrious examples among men thus generously endowed, Messrs. McKinley and Roosevelt. Roose-velt. It is not, he says, inconsistent with any form of religion, but he does not see how it can consist with no religion. It is not piety or religiousness, and utterly eludes description. Verily, the incursions of the minds of men into the spiritual realm sometimes leads to startling discoveries. dis-coveries. How densely ignorant, forsooth, would be the race of man, were it not'for the occasional advent of these men of genius. Prior to this astounding as-tounding revelation, for instance, we were wont to ascribe the success of men in the various lines of human enterprise Apolitical, financial or military to a well recognized quality commonly termed self-esteem self-esteem or, if you prefer, self-confidence. That it is in no appreciable degree akin to religious conscientiousness consci-entiousness is made amply clear by tb illustrious, though somewhat eccentric; career of Xapoleou, the 'little corporal" of the French empire. Now that wc have been assured, by so eminent an authority, au-thority, that it is a mysterious "spiritual" power that wins the diadem of success in the affairs of men that inspires the political boss and the captain cap-tain of industry it were folly, to longer neglect the j assiduous culture of spirituality. Having thus placed within our fond grasp the sceptre of a "Standard Oil" magnate or a beef trust baron, we should be the basest of iugrates if we were to refuse re-fuse to pay all due homage to this new light that has so majestically dawned upon our mental and spiritual horizon. ':!-! I ' |
