KNOWLEDGE OF SELF.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 70, 12 July 1912, Page 3

KNOWLEDGE OF SELF.

Fort'imato is ho who has a safe speaking acquaintance with himself. Tho man who is tho best judge of other men knows the most of human nature in general, is tho man who knows most about himself in particular.

The vain and conceited man, Hie foolish and self-sufficient individual, is tho ono who is woefully ignorant of himself. He knows, if possible, less about himself than ho does of his nearest neighbor. Ifc is perfectly plain that if he only knew how smalt he is and how contemptible, his self-conceit would instantaneously vanish.

Cervantes had this (bought in mind when he said: "Knowledge of thyself will preserve tlieo from vanity." No man is vain who knows himself, for well does he know that when known for what lie actually is there is no cause for pride or self-conceit. If tho things hidden within, of which only wo ourselves know, and which in truth constitute the principal elements in our character, were known to others, wo would blush with humiliation and shame instead of flaunting our conceit in their faces.

It is a fine thing to study one's self and to know one's self, for only then can ono know one's fellow men and treat tihom, with all the faults ono may sco in thorn, as one would be treated.— "Appeal to Reason."