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Show ONE VIEW OF A PESSIMIST Somewhat Severe Description, But Most People Will Agree That It Is Largely Truth. A pessimist is a son of the man who didn't believe there was any such thing as electricity. He is an offspring of the man who was sure that the horseless carriage would never come, and a nephew of the man who was willing to bet that men would never fly. A pessimist is a direct descendant of the man who was sure that wireless telegraphy was a fool's dream and a submarine merely the creation of a fiction fic-tion writer's brain. The pessimist's ancestry scoffed at the telephone, the typesetting machine, the 20-story building, anesthetics and every forward step the optimists have taken for the betterment of human life. If the pessimists of the past had been right, men would still be living in caves and trying to get their meals with clubs and flint arrows. And evidently evi-dently they died without publicly confessing con-fessing their mistakes, for their pessimistic pes-simistic children continue to prophesy dismally that everything that is surely i going to be cannot possibly come to I pass. They seem to be born with the habit and cannot get over it. Detroit Free Press. |