DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 5

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

BLINDERS (Copyright, 1927.) CIR OLIVER LODGE the other day said: “Science pursues a narrow road in search of truth, looking neither to the right nor the left. Well, it will soon have to take its blinkers off. The roads are not the whole universe. There is a good deal of ground in between. It looks at present like a jungle and thicket —uncivilised. Well, we will have to civilise It.” The fault to which Sir Oliver refers is not confined to scientists, although It is common among them. A man may look so intently at that thing upon which his attention is fixed that he fails to see important things about him to which he gives no heed. Some of the most Important things of life come unexpectedly. Some cf our most vital events are not those toward which we laboured. A man should keep his eyes and he able to see things “out of the tail of his eye.” The best things that ever happened to us have not been those things that we so arduously searched for, but things which have bumped into us unexpectedly. It is all right to pursue one subject with concentration, but we should not concentrate so much that we do not see other things. Many a man has been so busy with his trade or calling that he has failed to recognise opportunities that thrust themselves upon him. Many a religionist has been so occupied with his faith that he lias taken in none of the indubitable facts that surround him. So, also, some scientists pursue their duty so fixedly that they fail to see the spiritual realities that occur about them. A concentrated mind is a good thing, but it should also be an alert mind. We should press forward toward the goal in view, but we should be ready to jump at prizes that lie by the roadside. There is such a thing as too much concentration. Men centering all their attentions upon the pursuit of wealth do not see the little opportunities for happiness that lie along their path day by day. Women are so intent upon gaining some goal which they think important that they miss other blessings which they might have by the way for the taking. Let us devote all our attention to our business in hand, but let us remember that there are other things in this world than the thing upon which we have set our heart and that sometimes these other things are quite as important as our chosen object. r|- rH I-'.' iv ~'r Hi it: Hi m if: ri: Hi til rv y’r. yr rr r'r. Hi