BREVITIES
;Jji:spite of our scepticism man has Stiaily made a complete conquest of the air. He can now fly like a bird, bnfrihe still has lots to learn from his feathered - friends. It will be a long time,'for; instance, before he is able to sit comfortably on a barbed wire fence. Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the-Eeavens will be at half-past eleven o 'clock to-night. He can make no such prediction about his young daughter. A highbrow is one who has been educated above his intelligence. A specialist is one who starts out with an intense interest in some one thing, and he continues to learn more and more about less and less, until finally ho knows all there is to know about nothing. A philosopher is one who starts, out with a casual interest in a great many things, and he continues to.learn, less and less about ruoro and more lintil finally he knows nothing at all about everything.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 78, 29 September 1930, Page 17
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167BREVITIES Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 78, 29 September 1930, Page 17
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