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Lost Art of Thinking Might Offer Clues To Meaning in Souped-Up Lives Being Led
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SMking ih. M.aning of Lift
"An ox cart is as useful to
man as a rocket ship if he
does not know whera he
want! to go," Astronomer
Fred L. Whipple, of Harvard
University recently re.
marked.
Of course with modern zip
and flash we'll get wherever
we re going faster - but where
will we be?
This is a question which
modern man ought to be ask
ing, and attempting to answer.
Or else, why the r ish?
Henry David Thoreau, from
the contemplative observa
tory of Walden Pond, chided
our western civilization for
everlastingly seeking "im
proved means to unimproved
ends."
A San Francisco newspaper
unintentionally sounded a
similar note in a headline at
the turn of the century when
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RESOURCES
LOANS AND DISCOUNTS , $2,054,607.15
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Cash and Due From Banks 779,916.33
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Surplus 110,000.00
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Ralph E. Pierce Vice-President Clarence H. Young
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the city's first electric trolley
line was opened. Its terminal
stop was a suburban ceme
tery. "By Electricity to the
Crypt'.' the headline pro
claimed. By electricity, by atomic
energy, by rocket ship: is man
still hellbent for the end of
life without giving much ser
ious thought to why he lives
it, or for what?
How Science Falls
Prior to the nuclear stale
mate which now numbs the
, world, many believed that
science itself was man's sav
ior. It would provide all the
answers. Has it? Or has it. ac
tually raised bigger ques
tions? Rabbi Israel Goldstein,
of New York, recently told
his congregation:
i "In our generation we are
witnessing the 'Gotlerdamme-
i rung' of technology - the de-
, thionement of science as the
savior of mankind. While sci
ence may enhance the com
forts of living it can never
create human happiness, nor
can it ever exhaust the mys-
, teries of the universe."
J The time would seem ripe
for a revival of human
thought. We hRve watched the
test tubes bubble and the os
cilloscopes wriggle long
enough. If we are convinced
there are no final answers
there, we might turn to the
contraption which dwarfs
them all: the mind itself.
Through the lost, or hibernat-
, ing, art of thinking we might
find clues to meaning in the
souped-up lives we lead.
A 'Think Period'
Albert Schweitzer has ac
cused our age of being "filled
with disdain for thinking." In
the epilogue to his autobiogra
phy he wrote, "I therefore
stand and work In the world
as one who aims at making
men less shallow and mortal
ly better by making them
. think."
j Schweitzer Isn't the only
one. A few years agn the
mayor of Dearborn, Mich.,
Orville Hubbard, decided that
'thinking needed a nudge, a
push, or It would never come
back into fashion. He ordered
his municipal depa r t m e n t
heads to observe a 30-minute
"think period" every morn
ing. Mayor Hubbard said, "They
are to shut - themselves in
their offices, take no phone
calls nor see anybody. If they
think enough they may have
ideas. That is the way New
ton discovered the law of
gravity."
In Canada, Dr. Hilda Neat
by, professor of history at the
University of Saskatchewan,
has pleaded for a re-discovery
of thinking in modern educa
tion, chiding the schools for
providing "so little for the
mind."
"In the twentieth century
some 200 years after the 'en
lightenment' we encounter
the new barbarism." Dr. Neat
by declares. "Matters of the
mind are scorned as 'high
brow' and to attempt to en
lighten the mind of your
neighbor is almost as great a
presumption as to endeavor to
save his soul. He wants en
tertainment." Esteem for the Mind
This is not an attitude sole
ly of ivory tower intellectu
als. The down-to-earth scien
tist also knows how direly
the world needs the force and
direction of thinking these
days. Science and technology
alone are wild horses. It is
human thought which pro
vides the harness to make
them servants of man.
Dr. Alan T. Waterman, di
rector of the National Science
Foundation, recently asserted,
"We are not likely to harvest
a healthy crop of excellence
in a land where athletes and
nightclub entertainers are
held in higher esteem than
scholars, professional men
and women, and the teachers
of our children. We need to
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create in America the same
regard for achievement of the
mind as we now have for
achievements of a more ma
terial sort."
We've had our fun looking
down our noses at longhairs
who think. We've laughed as
Robert CumminRS said to Lor
etta Young in a movie they
made together, "You're be
witching, darling, your brains
don't show a bit."
It is time to let the brains
show. The western world
needs to bring the mind back
in style.
Why?
Fat. of Emptiness
Because this may be our es
cape from a fate as bad as fis
sion or fusion: the fate of emp
tiness. Dr. Schweitzer refers
to "the spiritual and material
misery to which mankind of
today is delivering itself
through its renunciation of
thinking." It is the isolation of
the empty mind, the terrible
loneliness of being unrelated
to the universe and to life: of
"not belonging."
Dr. Schweitzer calls for
"elemental thinking," and he
defines it as "that which
starts from the fundamental
questions about the relations
of man to the universe, about
the meaning of life, and about
the nature of goodness."
Think, then. Use th. mind.
And in that wondrous organ,
new powers for living may be
discovered. As Dr. Schweitzer
puts it, "To make men think
ing beings once more, then,
means to make them resort to
their own way of thinking
that they may try to secure
that knowledge which they
need for living . . . The stream
which has been flowing for a
long distance underground
conies again to the surface."
Thinking Inevitably leads
to spirituality, whether the
thinking of a Schweitzer, a
Lao-tse, an Augustine, or the
thinking of an everyday little
woman, Mrs. Elolse Welliver,
whom I met In the Wyalusing
Valley ot Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Welliver had had her
share of life's buffetings and
had decided at one point, as
most of u. do some time or
other, that life had practically
no meaning at all. Then she
began to think "elemental
ly." And, as she put It, "When
I came to the end of myself,
God was there."
Coming to the end of our
selves may be th. sunrise for
which the world is waitint?.
More and more ot us may, by
thinking beyond ourselves.
come to inner realizations of
the meaning of life each in
his particular way. More of us
may be able to relate to the
universe of which we are a
part and to the Creator ot it
all.
Otherwise we go on from t
here to nowhere. And the epi
taph which T. S. Eliot wrote
for us will be a true one. We
will he indeed a culture i
Whose only monument is the
asphalt road. And a thousand
lost golf balls."
Albert Einstein unlocked
the atom for us and thus ad
ded a note of emergency to
our spiritual floundering. He
showed us the road to obliv
ion. But Einstein, in a pensive
moment, also showed us a
road to meaning. He wrote:
"The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the mys
terious. It is the source of all
true art and science. He to
whom this emotion is a stran
ger, who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt in
awe, is as good as dead: his
eyes are closed.
"This insight Inlo the mys
tery of life, coupled though it
be with fear, has also given
rise to religion. To know that
what is impenetrable to us re
ally exists, manifesting itself
as the highest wisdom and the
most radiant beauty which
our dull faculties can compre
hend only in their most prim
itive form - this knowledge,
this feeling, is at the center of
true religiousness."
This thought by Einstein
may in the long run be more
important to the world than
EmcJ. (The Einstein equa
tion, the energy of a body
equals the mass of the body
times the velocity of light
squared, whirh opened the
door to the release of atomic
energy.)
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