1897 Imago

THE NARROWNESS OF BREADTH. W HEN a hot i - fired from a gun, if the gun i free to move there i considerable recoil, the hot moving forward and the gun moving backward. This illu ·trate the familiar lavl' of Phy ic -to every action there i an equal and contrary reaction. Thi i true in the realm of mind a well as in matter Any system of mental development, \,Yhich doe not keep thi in view, may result in narrowing instead of broad– ening the mind. A man by study develop hi faculties and tend to broaden his whole nature, but o soon a he thinks he is reaching hi ideal of perfection, pride in hi own attainments dwarf hi facultie . Even though his year were multiplied to centuries he mu t turn every energy toward gaining knowledge both by theory and experience if he would attain even a moderate degree of perfection ·water held back by a dam is po essed of potential energy; open the gate , the water ru hes through, the potential energy i changed into kinetic energy, and a such is able to run the mill. The college man, who ha a thorough knowledge of the ubject in his cour e, is posses ed of the ame kind of energy the water had when held back by the dam, he has wi thin himself the po ibility of benefiting mankind, but so long as his knowledge is mere theory he can never hope for success. A advice to his students, Dr. Scovel once said, "Remember that thousand have experience added to your them.-y. They know all that you know and they know what of that which you know i worth knowing." The gold which lie in the ground i of little value until it is mined and receives the stamp which makes it currency, o the stored up kn owledge must receive the tamp of experience before it may be of much use. Even in college a student may acquire much experimental knowledge in connection with the theoretical knowledge obtainable from text books, if he remembers that the facts thu