ELBERT HUSBAND’S SECRET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3372, 11 November 1911, Page 9

ELBERT HUSBAND’S SECRET.

“MOST VALUABLE ON EARTH.”

ENERGY THE ONLY VIRTUE

This secret which I am about to impart is the meet valuable and far-reach-ing of any known to man (writes Elbert Hubbard, in the New York Amerieav .i It is. the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is tho open sesame to paradise here and now. A secret is something that is, only known to a few. Often the test way to retain a secret is to let others help you to keep it. The only way,, to obtain love is to give it away—art and xelig on value of a secret turns on your abality to pass, it along. - , . This secret which I am abojat to impart'will cause no thrill save m the hearts of those who already know it And all I can do for you, anyway, « to tell you things you know, but. which possibly you do not know you know unelucidate? Very well, I will. There is only one thing m the world, and -that is energy. This energy takes a myriad million forms, and its one ' peculiarity is that it is always in motion. It has three general mamfestations —atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere. Or, if you prefer, air, water, and rock. - , From air, -water, and rock we get fungi and mosses, and then from these spring vegetation. Disintegrating vegetation gives us animal hie, and from- the animal to the vegetable world and the vegetable to the animal—with the constant interchange of gas, water and solid —gives us natures eternal programme. , In nature there is nothing inanimate. Everything is alive; everything is goin" somewhere, or coming back; nothing is statis. Fixity is the one impossible thing. And the fallacy of fixity has been the one fatal error of all philosophies m the past. ..... Progress consists in getting away from the idea of the static. Nature’s one business is to absorb and to dissipate—to attract and repel—to take in and give out. _ And everything which nature makes is engaged in the same business. Man takes in carbon and gives off nitrogen. . . . The plant takes in nitrogen and gives off carbon. . , A 1 things are in motion, ebb and flow, action and reaction, cause and effect,’ swirl and whirl. Centripetal and centrifugal forces make our life on the planet earth possible. t , The heart rests between beats. I hat which we call statis is merely equilibrium.

The tiger crouches for one or two reasons, to spring or to die. And earth is a form of life. Death is a combination where the balance js lost, and gas, water, and solids are m wrong proportions. The only tiling, then, is to dissolve the body and use the substance that composed it m new masses. .

What I am now telling you is science, and science is the classified knov ledge of the common people. . Man is a transformer of energy. I ins energy plays through him. In degree he can control it, or'at least he can control his condition as a transmitter. And the secret of being a good transmitter is not to allow motion to equal emotion. To be healthy and sane and well and happy you must work with your hands as .well as your head. The cure for grief is motion.

The recipe for strength is action. To have a body that is free from disease and toxins you must let motion equal emotion. Love for love’s sake creates a current so hot that- it blows out the fuse. But love that finds form in music, sculpture, painting, poetry, and work, is divine and beneficent beyond words. That is, love is an inward emotion and if stifled, thwarted and turned back upon itself tends to gloom, melancholy, brooding, -jealousy, rage, death. But -love that is liberated in human efforts attracts love, so a current is created and excess motion is utilised for the good not only of the beloved, hut of the race. The love that lasts is a trinity—l love you because you love the tilings that .i love. Static love soon turns to hate, or to he more exact, try to make love out of fixity and it dies. A lover out of a job is a good man for. a girl to .avoid. Safety lies in service. Coin" the same way five will go band in band. All emotion that takes the form of ecstacy with no outlet in the way of work ‘is dangerous. This way horror lies. Emotion without motion tends to madness and despair. . - , Expression must equal impression. It you study you must also create, write, 'teach, give out. Otherwise you will become a plaster of paris cat or a brass monkey. If great joy lias come to you pass it along, and thus do you double it. You are the steward of any gifts the gods have given you, and you answer for their, use with your life. Do not obstruct the diviue current. Use your knowledge and use it quickly, or it will disintegrate and putrefy. The schools where the child learns and then goes home and tells wliat lie has learned approaches the ideal. On the other hand, the college that imparts knowledge that supplies no opportunity for work is faulty in the extreme. A school for adults that does not supply work as well as facts is false in theory and vicious in practice. Its pupils do not possess health, happiness, or power except on a fluke. Emotion balanced by motion eliminates death tissue and ‘preserves sanity. For lack of motion congestion follows. All sickness among college students comes from a failure to make motion balance emotion. Impress and express, inhale and exhale, work and play, study and laugh, Jove and labor, exercise and rest. Study your own case and decide to get the most out of life. The education of invalids is a terrific waste. Realise that you are a divine transformer. Sickness, unhappiness, ignorance, all tend to inefficiency. And inefficiently is the only sin. Make motion equal emotion, and you will eliminate fear, round out the century run, and be efficient to the last. And to live long and well is to- .accept life in every phase—even death itself—and .find' it good.