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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 1, 1944
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ADVENTURES INTO THINKING, INTRODUCTION. The thoughts of a common man of no pretensions to education, fame, nor greatness of any kind, are probably of no benefit to anyone but himself. However, that fact should not deter him from doing his best to think the finest and deepest thoughts of which he is capable, on many and varied subjects. The farther they are from his common, every-day life, the more vital it is for him to think such thoughts. For it seems to me, as an observer of the highways and byways of life, that no man, however lowly his station in the economic or political or educational or financial world, need be held down to the lower strata thoughts, unless he is mentally lazy, or totally indifferent. Just as the hponograph and the radio make the music of the great masters, performed by the world's greatest musicians, available to everyone; just as the great libraries (to say nothing of the easily obtainable cheap editions) make the serious thoughts and recorded conclusions of the great writers and thinkers of the world available to him who will take the time, the energy, and the concentration to think them. Our common man's thoughts will probably not be too profound. His extrapolations may well often be less than logical. His conclusions may often even be very errronous. But if he has truly put his best into the thinking, they will be of immense value -- at least, or especially, to him. For they will, if honestly done, show him himself as he is. Or at least, as nearly like he is as he is personally able to evaluate himself. Therein lies their true value. Therein lies his true reward for taking the time to think those serious thoughts. The wider the range of his thinking, the more it will be of profit to him, for it will immeasurably have broadened his horizon. It will strengthen his sense of inter-relationship with his fellow-man. It will enlarge his spirit of compassion. It will give him new and added tolerance towards the ideas and thoughts of others. It will give newer, brighter meanings to his whole life. Having, then, come to the half-century mark of this tale of years called Life, this reader would become author; this thinker would become expounder; this observer would become commentator. 1
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ADVENTURES INTO THINKING, INTRODUCTION. The thoughts of a common man of no pretensions to education, fame, nor greatness of any kind, are probably of no benefit to anyone but himself. However, that fact should not deter him from doing his best to think the finest and deepest thoughts of which he is capable, on many and varied subjects. The farther they are from his common, every-day life, the more vital it is for him to think such thoughts. For it seems to me, as an observer of the highways and byways of life, that no man, however lowly his station in the economic or political or educational or financial world, need be held down to the lower strata thoughts, unless he is mentally lazy, or totally indifferent. Just as the hponograph and the radio make the music of the great masters, performed by the world's greatest musicians, available to everyone; just as the great libraries (to say nothing of the easily obtainable cheap editions) make the serious thoughts and recorded conclusions of the great writers and thinkers of the world available to him who will take the time, the energy, and the concentration to think them. Our common man's thoughts will probably not be too profound. His extrapolations may well often be less than logical. His conclusions may often even be very errronous. But if he has truly put his best into the thinking, they will be of immense value -- at least, or especially, to him. For they will, if honestly done, show him himself as he is. Or at least, as nearly like he is as he is personally able to evaluate himself. Therein lies their true value. Therein lies his true reward for taking the time to think those serious thoughts. The wider the range of his thinking, the more it will be of profit to him, for it will immeasurably have broadened his horizon. It will strengthen his sense of inter-relationship with his fellow-man. It will enlarge his spirit of compassion. It will give him new and added tolerance towards the ideas and thoughts of others. It will give newer, brighter meanings to his whole life. Having, then, come to the half-century mark of this tale of years called Life, this reader would become author; this thinker would become expounder; this observer would become commentator. 1
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