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Show H.J WHO DOES YOUR THINKING. B "VTTT'HAT is it that sets man above the rest B V V of the animal kingdom? Is it not the B power to think? All through the history of the Wml world there have been a few great thinkers, and BB : there have been a great many who let some one H else do their thinking for them. Which kind are B you? Do you think for yourself? People who B think for themselves are human beings, living on flft a high plain ; those who let others think for them B are living in a rut where prejudice, foggism, su- B ' pwratition, fanaticism and ignorance prevail. The k. world is full of people who travel in a rut, and K seem to like it. B The'habit of thinking is not easy to acquire. B Itmtan that you must reason, use the faculties K, , obypiir mind about things you see or hear. It Br means cultivating an open mind. It means self- B "$$, -VVjrl Hi' BB'j ' ' control. It means that you refuse to accept tho ready-made thoughts of others until you have an-alized an-alized them. Are you letting some one do your thinking for you ? The next time you notice yourself your-self .saying, "I think so-and-so," ask yourself the question, "Was that my thought or not?" We see all the time men who think, controlling those who do not in business, in religion, in politics, in war, in everything the thoughtful man rules. Sometimes, Some-times, and particularly in politics, he rules selfishly. self-ishly. Very often he uses the power he has to enrich himself at tho expense of those who do not use their reason. A hired agitator, in the pay of fanatics or extremists whose narrow minds object ob-ject to this, or that, or the other thing plays upon up-on the feelings of his hearers. The unthinking, after listening to- his tirade, exclaim, "He's right 1 I think there should be a law against It!" Do they think, or are they only reflecting the suggestion of a clever talker? The greatest show-man the world ever knew said : "The American people like to be humbugged." He certainly knew what he was talking about for he made a fortune in that business. |