THE MENTOR 1915.06.15, No. 85,
Painters of Western Life

LEARN ONE THINGEVERY DAY

JUNE 15 1915

SERIAL NO. 85

THE
MENTOR

PAINTERS
OF
WESTERN LIFE

By ARTHUR HOEBER
Author and Artist

DEPARTMENT OF
FINE ARTS

VOLUME 3
NUMBER 9

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Play the Game

“Suppose,” said Thomas Huxley, “it were perfectlycertain that the life and fortune of every one of uswould, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losinga game of chess. Don’t you think that we shouldall consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least thenames and the moves of the pieces? Do you not thinkthat we should look with a disapprobation amounting toscorn upon the father who allowed his son, or the Statewhich allowed its members, to grow up without knowinga pawn from a knight?”

“Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that thelife, the fortune, and the happiness of every one ofus, and more or less of those who are connected with us,do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of agame infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess.It is a game which has been played for untold ages, everyman and woman of us being one of the two players in agame of his or her own. The chessboard is the world,the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules ofthe game are what we call the laws of Nature.”

“The player on the other side is hidden from us. Weknow that his play is always fair, just, and patient.But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks amistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.To the man who plays well the highest stakes are paid,with that sort of overflowing generosity which with thestrong shows delight in strength. And one who plays illis checkmated—without haste, but without remorse.”