BE PRACTICAL.
No force, however great —no method, however promising, is useful until practicality reduces it to result bringing. Water in sluggish flow is an idle element ; restrained and directed it yields industry-making power. Fire, soaring red in a frenzy of liberty, is an element of destruction ; confined and controlled, a force of production. Brain power, diffused and impractical, is the resultless selfwearing of a wild engine ; centralised, practical, it becomes a motive power of progress. The practical guided James Watt to the improvement of steamengine which wrought revolution in all industry. It was Edison, the practical, who turned to production the dreams of a Franklin.
The practical developes inertia to energy, adapts ideas to actualities, transforms hopes to efforts, tempers ambition to judgment. It initiates the earnest, utilises the most effective, develops the greatest results. It wins.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 9 November 1907, Page 3
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138BE PRACTICAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 9 November 1907, Page 3
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