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Show Leisure, Science and Boredom Probably Three 1 Greatest Threats Against Humanity By DR. McMASTERS, President Mount Union College. The greatest threat against humanity is for a human being to become be-come bored with life. The chief threats are leisure, science and boredom. Leisure may either be made dangerous or an asset to humanity. We can employ our leisure in tearing down mind and body or devote it to the creation of intellectual enthusiasm. The threat of science is the greater development of machinery and the standardization of labor. The increased number of suicides in the ranks of high school and college students is one demonstration of the threat offered by boredom. They held their lives valueless because they thought they had explored the world of "thrills." We older men find an abundance of "thrilling" tilings to occupy our attention, however. These are provided by a study of astronomy, nature, na-ture, psychology, philosophy and other worth while subjects which lead to the great objective, an intellectual enthusiasm. Man must overcome machinery, instead of allowing it to make him its slave. There should be five workdays each week and the need for constructive con-structive reading and a higher education must be stressed. Education never ceases, no ma-ttcr if a man lives to be 100. |