AMBITION PLUS WILL-POWER

Why take your great gift of human life and
make no use of it ? Why use a harp to hang
clothes on ? Why use a piano as a workbench ?
Why should a man live like a driven ox ?

When I was a lad I heard a parson preach
a sermon. His theme was, ‘‘ If you can’t be a
Niagara, be a rill.” My whole nature revolted
against that sermon. It did me much good,
because I saw how silly it was.

What stuff to preach to people whose main
duty in life was to discover their abilities and
make the most of themselves !| What sort of
a squalid gospel was that to preach to people
who needed inspiration and encouragement !

In these days we have too many massproduced
 people. We have become standardized.
 We have, nearly all of us, gone through
the hopper of the educational mill and come
out as much alike as clothes pegs.
Talk about Henry Ford’s Model T, to
which he clung until it cost him tens of millions
 ! Is not almost every one of us a Model
T—a standardized product of a machine-built
civilization—one of the clockwork figures of
the business world ?

Our whole life has been militarized by
industrial and commercial and social compul-91