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Show Senatoar Hoar's Advice to Young Men. "First: Do not hurry. For those that want to work well there is time. The wise disregard hustle and bustlo and place thoroughness above speed." Hlght. The greatest curso laid upon human eirort is the lack of this same thoroughness, in preparation and "execution. The half-baked man never achieves very much. Even success, however great it may seeem to be, if It is won quickly is seldom won permanently. per-manently. The kind of success is the success that is built solidly and surely on deliberate methods. The kind of man that wins that kind of success is the man that knows thoroughly what, fie has to do, and then docs It to the best of his ability. There is getting to be less and less place In the world for the man that knows only half of his job. He must know It all now." Second, Mr. Hoar said: "Remember that there Is something more to live for than money. Turn from the race for the world's goods, the mad fight for greed, to -love of higher things. You may devote yourself to the practical arts, but remember that there Is something nobler to human life. Do not neglect the spiritual side. A man may be ever so rich and ever so skillful, but ho docs HI who forgets tastes and affections." Third, said Mr. Hoar: "I advise you to read some author every day. Read him so well, soak yourself so thoroughly with him, bathe In his wisdom so often that you will emerge from him as from a sparkling spark-ling fountain of purity. "Whom shall you read? There is little need for lengthy discussion on that point, for our tongue is too rich in its singers. Read Wordsworth; sit at the feet of Emerson, or drink at the fountain of Milton, and you will have added to your knowledge of the practical arts the inspiration that helps to develop the spiritual side." We add to these suggestions to young men about reading: 1. Read Shakespeare before Wordsworth Words-worth or Milton. Shakespeare is the great exponent of the principles of human life in all ages. No man becomes be-comes atrophied that reads Shakespeare, Shakes-peare, for this Is the perennial source of human sympathy and also the most perfect art in literature. 2. Read standard history. It tells you what men have done and suffered, and from that you can learn how slow progress is and how much is yet to be done for men. Read Gibbon's "Decline "De-cline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It Is more fascinating than any novel. Read Buckle's "History of Civilization In Europe." Read Hume and Lccky. Try to read the historians that arc not carried away by the glory and noise of war and conquest; try to find out that nations have other missions .than killing inferior races, and man has some other purpose on earth than snatching bread from his fellow man. Read the history of your own country; try to learn tha significance of its origin as a protest against force. 3. Read Biography. Read the lives of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, Washing-ton, Lincoln, Wendell Phillips, John Bright, nenry George and other men that have stood for something and meant something. 4. And keep up your acquaintance with at least one foreign language-it language-it is so easy, so great a source of profit and pleasure. The English speaking races are generally far behind in this simple addition to the Joys of -life. In continental Europe most people know at least two languages and many know six or seven. The mental discipline of acquiring and retaining a language Is a great advantago to you, no matter what may be your line of work, a'nd tho treasures of another literature that it opens ought to bo a means of grace against the kind of brain-hard-cnlng that Mr. Hoar was talking about. Tills excellent philosopher added as his final word to his hearers advice to make all their work honest and clean and exhibiting the best that Is In them. |
