TO THE MAN WHO LOOKS, BUT DOESN'T SEE,

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 2, 5 June 1930, Page 12

TO THE MAN WHO LOOKS, BUT DOESN'T SEE,

You need glasses! But the optican can't prescribe for you. He can deal only with local troubles and correct minor faults. .

His skill is sufficiently competent for the problems .-.of astigmatism and

myopia, but he can '<t "prescribe spectacles that will 'help tliis trouble one io*a. '

It lies fuiitfher back than your " eyes. It's deeper than the iris ox retina; your •brain's wrong—it's, voidersized, undeveloped —flabby from neglect.

It requires exercise. It demands constant education and persistent trainMS- ...

A million blind, unutilised cells are "waiting orders, ready for..'.action, eager

for work,

You haven't grasped a single per cent of your, mental pdwers. , ,

You igaze but do not see* -'..Your eaa is a camera fitted with lenses more "wonderful than were ever ground' out of crystal, but most of the time the sfcutter is down-*-the .light can't penettrate. The plaited are aliWays in the holder; but day after day you waste mighty ehainces to print enduring trut!hs oil your memory. •

Whenever you1 walk Opportunity stares you full in the face and you deliberaitely snuib her.

Tour vision is primitive. The microscope gives you a slight -hint of haw often and in how many ways you lack

perception.

Every morning the world records some discovery which you -overlooked. Whatever has been searched out by any other human being could have been found by you. .

And the few things we do know are not wonth calculating when compared with the unestimated and uhattalned disclosures' destined for revelation in tie years .ahead.

The very aar is crowded with giants, some day to be dragged from their conjcealmeiut aoa.d set to work wonders for science and commerce.

JBvery city daily destroys in its garbage plants fortunes of oils and pigments anfl drugs and fertilisers and

chemicals

Aljyminiuia was in clay banks—t»h© 'irea&tfh. of Midas was buiae'd in. coal, tar, through all the ages that youac foolish forefia.th.ers were breaking their necks and heaiits tfor El' Doradoes. ...

Tiie biggest gold mine in all history yields less than the potentialities of your lOiwn back yard. ••

Chances nowadays,, man alive—you can't count them—-you can't move a hundred feet without tramping on or passing through one, but they might ems well be on Mars as far, as you axe concerned.

You're all but bland. Your sdgthlt doean 't reach beyond your nose.

Learn to see (when you look, and look with, all 'the' power of a mind illuminated by the flaring flames of imagination. Concentrate hard enough on any subject—speculate long enough" on. -aify^ possibility and it must become a practical fact. • ' . • .

Look well at the waste in your factories and wonder to what uses tkey can be applied.

Look well art the sicres round about you and think of"some way.to increase their yield.

Look well into the smoke above you -^sonic day somebody "will extract vaiu■aibQ'e gases and control all tihe unc;Qnsumed power • now .squandered thnough the ineffiicient iiandlin'g of fuel.

There's food in sawdust—sugar in

©havings—medicine in scraj) iron—^-anee-ifhesia in old sihoes.

' There 's a ibettea" way of doing eveiy■tihing now done—^-iind it!

There's a certain cure looming for every ill amd ailment—seach for it!

To-morrofwr is 'a fairy godmotther rich ■with rewards for all who truly use tiheir eyes. ;