THE NEED OF NEW LEADERS
ous. But if the leader is afraid of the crowd, it
bleats and jostles back and forth and makes no
progress.
As President Hoover said, before he became
President—*‘‘ Facts and ideas that lead to
progress are born out of the womb of the
individual mind, not out of the mind of the
crowd. The crowd only feels. It has no mind
of its own which can plan. The crowd is
credulous. It destroys, it hates, and it dreams,
but it never builds.”
The man who passively belongs to a herd
sacrifices his personal development, if he is a
man of latent ability. He sells his birthright
for a mess of pottage. He dies without finding
out the possibilities of his own nature.

He might well have, as an epitaph, that
scathing verse of Stevenson’s :

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Here lies a man who never did
Anything but what he was bid ;
Who lived his life in paltry ease,
And died of commonplace disease.”
Sir James Jeans, in his popular scientific
book, The Mysterious Universe, says that there
is nothing in the universe but waves—active
waves and bottled-up waves. This is as true
of men as it is of matter. Most men have

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