POINT OF VIEW 



HE thinking men and women of the world have award- 

 ed to Elbert Hubbard the degree of Doctor of Com- 

 mon Sense, "says Mr. Bailey Millard in the Cosmopolitan 

 for September. <{ And we think the award is just. 

 Elbert Hubbard is the sanest, most vivid, direct and 

 original writer in America, and many look upon him 

 as a philosopher of so big and generous a type that he 

 is worthy to be called the true successor of Herbert 

 Spencer, the greatest philosopher of his age. Whether Hubbard is as 

 deep a thinker as Spencer let time and the prophecies of both reveal. 

 Spencer has given us many daring flights of imagination, but in way 

 of practical achievement, dealing with humanity and the world as it 

 exists, Elbert Hubbard has done things which to Herbert Spencer were 

 impossible. Hubbard deals less with theories and more with facts. 

 Hubbard has a firm and sure grasp on practical economics. He is a 

 successful business man, a remarkable writer and an orator of power. 

 His experience in the world of workers, in business, as a teacher and 

 before the people as a public lecturer, has given him a broad outlook 

 into methods, motives and possibilities. He views things from the 

 vantage ground of actual contact, while Spencer, to a great degree, 

 was a laboratory recluse. That philosophic nugget, A MESSAGE To 

 GAHCIA could only have been written by a man who had been both 

 employee and employer a man who had received orders and given 

 them. Q If there is any other living writer who deals with life with 

 the same courage, faith and hope that Elbert Hubbard reveals, we do 

 not know him. C Hubbard is a teacher of the people who teach. Q He 

 supplies texts for many sermons where his name is never mentioned; 

 suggests thoughts for editorial writers, and gives to many an essayist 

 his needed initial impulse. Hubbard's influence is strongest among the 

 people who play big parts upon life's stage. <J The test of greatness 

 lies not in the ability to produce like-mindedness, but to stir men up to 

 think for themselves. Hubbard divides men. And society to-day is fast 

 reaching a point where there are but two classes, those who read 

 Elbert Hubbard, and those who don't. And those who don't, can't. To 

 disparage this man is proof of incapacity. Hubbard's test of every 

 phase of life is, Will it serve? Cf And no matter what the nimble critics 

 may say, Elbert Hubbard's life is dedicated to the service of mankind, 

 and he who declares otherwise has never seen the man, heard him 

 speak, nor visited the place which he has made famous. And the fact 

 that in working for mankind Hubbard regards himself as an important 

 part of mankind need not weigh in the balance 'gainst the man himself, 

 for Elbert Hubbard, of all men, is wise enough to know that the only 

 way to benefit yourself is to benefit others. Denver Post. 



