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Show Ideals as Compared with Application v. Ideals are nice things to toy with. Light, airy nothings in use, for the application of them brings in the test. The ideal, which was once so pure, so nice, so uplifting, is in the application dependent on human nature, all its ills, it lapses, its crookedness. The ideal is almost sure to be lost in the shuffle. Let it be viewed from another light. In the first presentation of Nazi-ism, the ideals were easy to take. The betterment of Germany. The uplifting of the man at the bottom. Better expression, better ambition all ills would cease. Many got into it, not rebuffed by the ideals, as there was nothing in in them, to rebuff the most finicky but in the application. ap-plication. ' When the man who took the ideals saw the gestapo in action, saw the concentration camp, and its effect, saw despotism, saw Buchenwald, or saw Hitler (tiie pure) amass a great fortune" for himself him-self then he saw application of an ideal and qui- etly took passage to the U. S. Did the ideal (which won the convert) scry, If you don't join, the concentration camp for you, confiscation confis-cation of your means to Hitler' pocket? Your collection col-lection of art to Goering? Your industrial plant taken? tak-en? Did it? But that's the application. The ideal in one thing. The application of that ideal is another. A duffer by the name of Plato was invite to' the court of Dionysus, to make a king a philosopher a fine ideal. But in the application, Plato was sold by the enraged tyrant as a slave! Yeah, ideals are fine things. All pure. Man at his best. But man at the ordinary puts the ideals into effect, with all the attendant shortcomings of frail man. Pessimistic? No, but looking at "things as iz," not as they ought to be. We all hold ideals. And we all see them shattered into shreds of things in the application. applica-tion. As a prominent writer reviews it, the march on is toilsomely slow. Improvement is so minute, that a given generation sees no perceptible change but over a group of generations, a pitiful betterment. better-ment. Man is human nature, human nature in its worst( the ordinary) in the majority, as against a better phase, human nature (minority) holding an ideal despite its fluctuating ups and downs in application ap-plication of that ideal. The daily news gives the digest of the hunters killed this season. Ten as this is written. The accidents vary in ceruse, some preventable, some apparently not. But the toll remains. And the deaths by auto enormous. It is not e-nough e-nough that one drives carefully himself that's only on-ly one half, for the other half is that the other driver may kill you. |