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VOL.
LIX. N o . 5
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Aug. 1, 1914
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FRIEND of mine remarked recently while referring to a man who has accumulated a vast
fortune: "I should think that he would quit. He has enough." I asked this man if he
L would be willing to quit under the circumstances. "Oh, certainly," he replied, and yet
before the conversation closed he admitted that he was desirous personally of accomplish-
ing certain things which would have required years of concentrated effort as well as a vast outlay
of money.
It is easy to say of the other man that he runs too fast, or that his walk is ungainly, or that
his stride is imperfect. Get in the race, and perhaps the same thing may be said of the critic.
The simple fact is that 'way down in the human heart is that fixed desire for more. It is
one of the most vital elements in life. Were all of us to be satisfied with what we have, we should
never be able to improve our condition.
The desire for more is inherent, whether it is more money, more fame, more education or more
to eat—it is everywhere, the cry for more. Look in every field of human endeavor and it is the
same thing.
The housewife objected to so much sweeping and cleaning, and the vacuum cleaner was con-
structed to lessen her burden.
The candle became unsatisfactory and was supplanted by gas, and now gas is sidetracked for
electricity.
The ocean steamer w r hich was considered a marvel a few years ago is in the fourth-rate class
to-day.
The great war vessels which were terrors less than a decade ago have gone to the scrap heap.
We now desire to navigate the air. We are not satisfied with running a mile a minute over
land, we want to make it an even hundred through the air, and we find plenty of men who are
willing to risk their lives to discover how this can be done.
Perfect satisfaction means retrogression. It arrests development. Dissatisfaction vitalizes new
action into higher accomplishments.
It is a good thing, however, that the more does not always refer to money, that back of this
dissatisfaction is the desire to make things better; in other words, to,aid the progress of the world
in every possible way.
The inventor is more pleased to see his brain fount work successfully than he is to get a
shower of golden dollars.
The desire for more is inbred in the human heart, and the desire for possession is one of
the greatest, if not actually the most powerful force impelling the world's progress.
The cry is more—always more.
"It must be so, Plato—thou reasonest well!
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?"
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