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EVERYBODY DOES IT their complicated ramifications, am quite 2910 raise my voice, and, if need be, my fist in prepared to something that satisfied somebody else, who followed There are certain watchwords that claim and gain a somebody else.
wide acceptance and carry a weight that cannot be opposed. One is that everyone does or does not certain Another motive in determining our attitude and acthings, pursues or does not pursue certain courses or tions is fear. What valiant persons we are in our own practices. The great god of convention, or public opinion, opinion; what arrant cowards in actual reality? We fear to dress as we like, to act as we like, to think as we is one of the most powerful of deities, for whatever gods we acknowledge there is one that is never lacking in like, because we dread the disapproval, or ridicule of devotees; even the atheist pays homage to him and bows our fellows. It has been said that the most powerful before him in abject devotion. This deity may be as cruel sentiment in the world is fear, and we are inclined to be as any Moloch that ever demanded the life blood of his lieve it. For some reason or other, the bravest of men worshippers; but he is our god and we bow to him, are in mortal fear lest they make a fool of themselves whether with tortured heart and agonized face, or with and are quite ready to suppress individuality, brave smiling acquiescence. We worship and serve him as we though they are. Take a simple illustration in the matserve no other.
ter of dress. Someone has decreed that to wear a silk hat and tan shoes is quite incorrect and we dare not opTheoretically, we are all free and independent and pose this dictum; yet, if someone else decreed that this we resent any suggestion to the contrary, but in fact we was correct, we would at once rush to the outfitters and are anything but free or independent. Strange as it may be in the mode.
sound and destructive of our pride as it may be, most of us are slaves as truly as any captives that ever were In Rome we must do as the Romans do. Many a life, dragged behind the triumphal car of a victorious Ro many a young life has been wrecked on this rock. As man general in ancient days; squirming slaves we are, well say, in Patagonia we must do as the Patagonians smiling slaves, bored slaves, happy slaves, miserable do, or in Fiji do as the Fijians do.
slaves, and the voice that commands us and the lash that Another great motive is ambition, which is only the falls upon us, and the brand that marks us is public reverse side of fear. want to be in the swim because opinion; and we dare not resist, for resistance mcars fear to be out of it, to write my name in bold characters ostracism, and ostracism from any set, or clique, or so so that all may read and am prepared to play all kinds ciety is, in the estimation of most of us, unsupportable.
of antics before high heaven to accomplish my purpose.
What a patient, sheeplike, acquiescent, docile, and unInheritance, custom, society, these be your gods to which original lot we are! We go with the crowd, accepting its you must bow down, immolating your individuality.
ideas and demands, either without question which is Whoso would be a man, said one of great and incisive mind, must be a non conformist. Magazine, the general way or from motives which we would scarcely acknowledge to ourselves. They tell us that if one were to put a goose on a floor and draw around it a chalk mark, the goose could not be induced to cross the FALSEHOOD chalk mark; but a goose is only a goose and is unable to estimate, or appraise the futility of chalk lines. Most of the lines that society draws are chalk lines, having neith Among the various methods of deception, none is more er reason for their existence, nor substantiality, and all frequently or universally employed than that of lying.
who are deterred from asserting themselves are in the class of the unimaginative, bewildered and thoughtless Parading through all walks of life, in all paths of profession and occupation, the liar is at once a coward goose.
and a pretender. child of ten said to her mother the other day, want thesé; all the other girls have those things. That It is selfish vanity which prompts him to twist and distort the truth in his favour, in order to gain the is the urge and motive: all the others have it; and the praise which he does not deserve or merit, or to attain child was only an adult of younger years. What tyran the success which otherwise would be doubtful.
ranies we endure and heart breakings because all the others have it? What family disagreements, and overTo the coward and pretender appearances are far drawn bank accounts and mortgages, because all the more easily assumed than realities, and oftentimes are others have something that we cannot in reason or found more successful and plausible to the innocent, unhonesty afford? History is eloquent on the cruelties of suspecting and ignorant person. Behind the mask of lies yield, not under actual lash, to the more cruel one the pretender swaggers to his personal aims and selfish despot ever existed than the despot of custom, and we ambitions.
yield, not uner an actual lash, but to the more cruel one The man who wishes to have others believe that he of being out of it.
is more important, more prosperous or more sincere What is the driving force behind our life and actionthan those about him, will endeavour to attract attenthat is, the real driving force, however we may disguise tion by his sham and pretence. He will promote selfish our motives? There are many, and to make a selection interests with cunning and deliberate falsehood. He. one is inheritance. Our thought and viewpoint are does not possess the qualities of which he boasts. He is dictated by heredity. subscribe to certain theories benot the virile character he poses to be. I the Frequently much of man life is misspent in his idle endeavour to display qualities which are not his, and fact, if were to be frank with myself, must confess working through the channels of deceit will succeed for my inability to examine them; but the ideas that were a short time at least in conveying the impression to good enough for my forbears are good enough for me, others that he is the man he seemingly appears to be. and although know enough of these theories, with The Pilot.
This one word represents the embodiment of the whole sum and substance of man existence in this world and the world to come. That which a man or woman actually is, is called by the name used in our head line, and is different from reputation in that reputation is merely what one is thought to be, that which is the total of his known action or inaction. This thought is sometimes biased and influenced either by wilful prejudice or inability to make a proper appraisement. It is held that as a general rule, one record will more or less express his character. One reputation therefore, may be either lower or higher than his character or record will justify.
Reputation is sometimes formally referred to as repute, which has the same general meaning as reputation.
But there is no oneness of meaning between reputa tion and character, for the one is as different from the other as light is from darkness. Character is based upon a fact, while reputation is so based upon opinion.
Character is a fundamental, reputation an accessor Character is a combination of both natural and acquired traits. It is a property, a quality. Reputation is a feature and indication. Character is the constitution of a mental and moral make up as against reputation which is an attribute of what one is conceived to be, and may not be in fact. Character we repeat, is a quality which is the peculiar possession of the possessor. It is something inherent, being made so by preposession and development, which development becomes a determining factor in a life a law or rule of action the fundamental basis of a worthy existence. great thinker once said, reputation is, as a rule, seventy five per cent mistaken identity that many a saintly person has been given a reputation that presents him as a devil many a rascal has been placarded as a gentleman many a harlot as a lady all of which happen as the result of opinions conveniently formed by minds in eclipse minds that are corrupt and wicked minds that love that which is evil, eschewing that which is good and minds that would demoralize society and reduce the human standard to a level lower than that of the beast.
This being the case, and a fact within our own knowledge, it is our duty to note the difference between character and reputation, and conform our conduct to the rules of equity in passing judgement as to character upon our fellowmen. We should remember that a matter affecting one intrinsic nature should not be arbitrarily passed upon as a mere matter of form, for character is the only human possession which counts for anything in this life and in that to come. man or woman without character is like a dead carcass something from which the vital principle has departed. It has no life and soon stinketh. The person without character has no vitality that which is intrinsic is absent, and that body is dead, and when a body is dead, it is quite ready to be buried, for the dead doth not mingle with the living.
Finally, every man and woman came into existence possessing traits of character. It is for them to develope those traits. When a seed is planted, it germinates, grows, and fructifies. It is hindered in this process if the soil is barren, and if it is not cultivated. But even barren soils can be made fruitful by cultivation. It is axiomatic therefore, that we must develope our character by cultivating the character traits with which we were born, otherwise the same thing will happen to us on barren soil and without cultivation.
Is there a lamp that will burn without oil? Is there an engine that will run without steam? What is the use of the oil less lamp, and the steam less engine? sensible and consciencious answer to these questions will draw the correct likeness of the man and woman without character!
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