A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

7 ARE YOU AN OLD FOGEY? I An old fogey is not necessarily an old man—nor yet a young one, for an old fogey might he a young women—or an old one. One needn’t lfe old in years to he an old fogey; quite young people show a marked stiffening of the joints in their thinking apparatus, which renders them impervious to new ideas, thoughts, facts, truths, and habits. Old fogeys are the people who stand still mentally, who are anchored t. their old habits and lines of thinking. The great river of life flows past them, her bosom laden with fruits of wisdom, pearls of intellect, gems of science, treasures of thought—a thousand rich cargoes which are consigned to all men and women who are not old fogeys. The old fogeys have no use for such cargoes. New thoughts, new truths, new facts, new ideas, new discoveries, new habits—these they are incapable of perceiving or adopting. They have dug themselves a groove, and it has become a.grave, as a groove always will in the last analysis. Their thoughts are so congealed, their mental processes so petrified, that all the wealth of the Indies would not tempt them to “crank up” the joints in their thinking apparatus and get into line with the advance-guard of their generation. “Crank up” your mental processes. Don’t petrify! /Petrification begins when we refuse to investigate. Begin now, to prevent it from beginning. < Investigate! Reason! Search! i To investigate is to live; to reason is to grow; to seal'd; is to expand To be willing to investigate all creeds, all cults, all sciences, all plans for human betterment is to become universal. 1 Why ho an old fogey? Why be behind the times ? < Crank up! Investigate! —M. PRESTON STANLEY.