THE LIMITATION OF MEN by S. S. Times

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 39.

THE LIMITATION OF MEN.

By S. S. Times

ONE of the sure ways of accomplishing too little is by expecting too much. To one who knows men, no truth is more patent than the limitations of men of power. Some men are so profound that we despair of measuring their possibilities; but they are like the narrow vein of gold-bearing quartz,—very deep down they go, but the line on each side of them is a hard, fast line of limitation. Other men cover vast fields and wide ranges of learning and power, so that, as we survey them, their capabilities outrun the horizon of our view. But only a few inches or yards below this promising surface is a definite line of limitation. They are only a thin stratum. Both sorts, and mixed sorts, and all sorts must be viewed and estimated by their limitations, as well as their capabilities. No power, human or other, can be utilized to the best advantage, if we lose sight of the lines of limitation. Within those lines of limit any power can be developed to unlimited effectiveness and utility.—S. S. Times.