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When tt comes to superiority—
Most of us are mixed. ’ , Someone
•nee asked Pet«* Cartwright If hd
wee “ entirely sanctified;" after a
moment’s reflection the old pioneer
preacher replied, “ I think 1 am— In
Most of users superior In streaks,
and doubtless find ourselves.inferior
and common In many respects. But
least It may help us to know
what real superiority Is, to know the
goal, to know some sort o f yard
stick by which to measure ourselves.
Some people are better than oth-
ers. All men are not equal. Some
are finer, higher, better bred, nobler
than others.
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The world has always beitsved It.
And what mankind has believed for
a thousand years, w h a t'it keeps on
believing, generation after ¡genera
tion, must have some truth in It.
h w * lies eannot live long; they
must be Well aelted with^truth to
W e have always-had our aristoc
racies. Casts Is ingrained in human
thought. ‘ The superiority o f the
few la an Ineradicable instinct.
Even Jesus said, "Strait la the gate
few ¿here be that find 1C”
The Jews had their LevUss, tne
Japanese their Samurai, the Romans
Their Patricians, ths Egyptlana ttaelr
Hierarchy, feudal Kurope its Cords
and Dukes, the English their No
bility, the Germans their Junkers,
India her strict Castes, ail nations
their Royal Families and High-horn
Magnificences, and every savage
tribe its Cbieftiana.
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chang ing your tastes,
S. You must want to change
them, and
S. You must fib about It intel
ligently and with determined will.
A n d * now let us see the goal
toward which we must strive.
Wherein consists superiority? Who
are the gmurtne Upper Ten? What
kind of person la the hundredth
man?
' You may know thq Superior t)ne
by these marks:
L He in spiritual.
I use the
wide way. and many there be that
go therety.
of,.the body.
Joubert says some
thing to the effect that the end o f
all art and culture la to transfer
one’s pleasures over from the body
to' tbs mind.
The art o f living consists In the
wise choice o f satisfactions. I f we
choose thé fleshly, they do not lest;
we are eventually bored and wretch
ed. If we chooee the higher, they
reveal themselves es mom perma
nent, g ro w in g by w ia t they feed
on. So It la a question o f whether
you want to be happy a little while
or all the time.
The mind and conscience are the
latest produett of evolution.
The
body runs back to the beasts. If
your joys are In die mind, you can
say, in the language of a modern
philosopher. “ We have a degree of
existence at least ten times larger
than 'oth ers; la other words, we
exist ten times as much.“
IV. The superior person Is above
his pleasures: He has pleasures ,as
everyone has. He loves to eat. uid
distinguishes between a well-cooked
steak and a sloppy Btew; he loves to
drink, and appreciates the fine PM*
vora of* good milk and- excellent cof
fee; he enjdys playing tennis, and
motoring, and the theatre and mu-«
ale and and art. But the point Is
that, no matter how keen his de
light in any of these human Joys,
none of them is bigger then he Is.
He usee them! They do pot lead,
him by th e nose. I f the lo ve, Of
money,«the passion of love, the zest
of gaming, or the fun of any sort
of diversion, sweeps yon away and
controls you. instead 'o f your con
trolling It, that la the way of the
herd— they all do it— and you are
Common.
Can you put by a strong desire,
forego a cherished ambition, sternly
deny yourself position, tame, money,
love, m
even life itself, far the
sake o f a high principle?
Them
* r « just a fsw such. Your are su
perior. You belong to the Nobility.
V. The superior people ere never
bitter; If you feel you ere a failure,
that the world la going to the 4»gs.
that all men aye lie n , and that
there are no good women/ tt la all
quite human, that la the tendency—
it is the general slump of the cheap
and ordinary mind.
Pessimism Is the philosophy of
vulgarity. It amounts to dressing
ui> >» fine phrases the cowardice of
the spirit.
Maeterlinck says that to the hero
there Is no tragedy.
No matter
how the world and events conspire
against him, he rises above them.
Friends may betray, and authorities
may tyrannise, and the wicked may
triumph, but It alt cannot touch
Take, for instance the death of
Socrates... As we reed the story of
how he was poisoned, like a rat in
a hole, of bis conversation* with his
friends as his hour approached, and
catch the spirit of the old hero, we
are surprised to find we are not
sorry for him; we envy him; we are
sorry for the vlllians who did him
to death.
So we do not pity Jesus on Cal
vary. We admire and wonder. The
more the ferocity and 'Ingratitude
and injustice of men beat uponf Him,
the higher burns the flame of Hie
Imperial spirit.
W e do not look
down upon Him In compassion, we
look up and adorn
Neither do we pity them at Mara
thon, nor thqpe others at Balaklava,
nor the marines In' the Wood o f
Bellean.
Deep In our hearts we
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Best housewives w ill accept
s o other— it’s si ways fresh
w h e n it reaches your table.
ranz* Butter Nut Bread
like beet? Beer end beef and Bleep.
and slippered ease and danslng and
the chase?
Does It moat Irritate
you to be deprived of these things?
Do yon get petulant when you can
not have luxury, fine clothes, prom
inence, and all such? Well, all the
world Is like that. Not necessarily
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In name sod place ohly. Really they
were common as mud. 'Coarse and
bestial natures have often borne
the ermine and sat on thrones.
But where there is so much smoke
there must be some fire.
There
cuold.not be so much seeming'wltlT-
out a modicum of reality. Counter
feitin g cannot go on perpetually un
less there exist good money to eoun-
terfelt
So there Is a difference In folks,
as In cstle. Some are thoroughbred
and some are scrubs. In the foreet
of humanity some trees are tallest.
In art some alts masters and softie
Imitators.
In business some are
leaders and some 'followers,
'in
every war 4 few become pre-emi
nent. In society there i s an upper
ten.
In your village there are
prominent citizens.
In your club,
lodge, church, group, circle of ac
quaintances, workshop or counting
house, there are Superior People.
They are marked. They stapd out
What is real eupsrlbrlty?
It consists not In the place yoa
occupy ( your officia l status or your
the
such
clothes you wear,
thing.
This Is m
seed not be argued
Neither does it consist la your
genius, or talents. A person may be
a famous singer, ye f.s cheap scoun
drel; or a world-famous painter or
sculptor, yet a cad; a renowned
actress, yet no better than e common
street walker; a senator or governor
or king or nabob, yet ot the same
fabric and weave as the pothouse
loafer.
Neither does it depend on wjhat
you say or do. For there are thoee
poos them to bs ss ths oolor ot our
hair. It that Is your creed. If you
look upon yor likes as Inalterable,
why, make np your mind to remain
common, go back to your kennel,
and be as comfortable f * yon oan.
Superiority la not tor yon.
And
perhaps It la just as wall.
But It In yon Is the unquenchable
hope V th a t7 you are dissatisfied
with yourself.
But do you like— like, mark you,
not say you like— do you like Mona
Lisa or Chopin's Ball ade oft W alter
Patfer’s writing or prayer or s 'new
idea or a beautiful woodland, so
dutch that you would miss a meal
or forego being Introduced to an
ambassador, for the sake o f . enjoy
For you
ing them? Then rejoice
tread a narrow way, and few there
be that find it. You may be many
things reprehensible, but you are
not Common.
II. Simplicity: The superior ones
like 8implicty.
The vulgar crowd
likes finery.
Which make» you
happier, to look at a clean, naked
Greek pillar or at the gilded ginger
bread carving in n New York theatre
or a fa rls hotel?
Do you love fine clothes, new and
expensive hats, shoes that ecoet
twenty-five dollars, jewelry and per
fumes?
These tastes may not be
evil, 1 do not say Q»ey • are; but
every harlot has thdm.
•A great soul cot^ld not possibly
live In a marble palace, and have
more cooks, butlers, chauffeurs and
serving maids than fingers and lose.
It would sufflcate him.
The more real culture a woman
has the less she fancies fine feathers.
She abhors any hat or gown that
renders her conspicuous.
The superior use simple words.
They have simple habits. They eat
simple food. They'find pleasure in
simple form s of blsy, *
I f you take to loud neckties and
long words and affected manners
and expensive dinners, and luxury
of all kinds, you are not alone—
every servant girl knd stable boy in
Christendom shares your tastes,
though perhaps not your ability to
gratify them, and you are Common.
Sodratee, Buddha, and Jesus are.
by the common consent of mankind,
sunerlor. We cannot all be of so
great grandeur of spirit. But We
can tike what they liked— simplicity
of life, o t thought, and of destroy
And If not, why, we are o f the "Ig 1-
nobite vulgue.”
ID, Service: The superior ones
like Ao serve. Ths common crowd
love to be served, t t l the cheap
soul that love# to be waited on.
Ths lady Who must ring for her
maid to oroas the room and bring
her her wrap, the gentleman whose
’soul swells -when the me n- servant
hands him his hat and oisns, are1
not singular, the common herd all
like that, they are ordinary, you
might q*y "e r*n y y .’'
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Just any common boor snjoys
having his feet washed; the Son o f
Ged washed His disciples’ feet.
tt Is tli* instinct of sorvioei thM
la oats joy o f doing eomethtng to
i make other peop^ happy, that la the
oere o f pollteoses, o f what we call
I good breeding. It Is evidenced In
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TEST “ 1” REASONABLE IN VE STM E N T: Don’t boy a track
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a motor trapk when you buy it. A t the end of its period of use
it should have a substantial “ Cash or trade-in" value. Investigate
the actual “ after use” worth of any track before yon make you *
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TEST “ 3” REASONABLE IN V E S TM E N T: Tracks are a means
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TEST “ 3” S IM PLIC ITY:
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his unskilled abilities.
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TEST “ 4” EQUALIZED BALANCE
rear lamp bracket, maximum efficiency o f operation requires even
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too ligh t for its load— the frame must not be heavier than is nec
essary. Consider whether or not there is proper eo-relation of,
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TEST “ 5” OVER C ARR IAG E : Do not buy a one ton track and
expect it to do a 3 % ton duty. But the track you do buy Should;
be built to allow for a reasonable margin of overload. . Buy the size
truck that your business needs. Do not invest in a 5 ton for a 1 •
ton labors. Nor should you buy a 3Vz ton truck to do the work of
a 5 ton track.
TEST “e”CONTINUOUS OPERATION; Accidents w ill happen,
and some repairs are inevitable. Select a tra ok design so standard
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TEST “ 7” ESTABLISHED M ANU FACTURER: A track made
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TEST “ 9” NON-RADICAL DESIGN: Radical changes and
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Keep w ithin approved design and principles.
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