巧遇智慧英文—我的前程近在咫尺(常速) 怎樣把信送給加西亞

[00:04]How to Send a Message to Garcia [00:07]When war broke out between Spain and the United States it was very necessary [00:12]to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. [00:16]Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba—no one knew where. [00:21]No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. [00:24]The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly. [00:28]What to do! [00:30]Some one said to the President, [00:32]“There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can.” [00:37]Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. [00:42]How “the fellow by the name of Rowan” took the letter, [00:45]sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, [00:49]in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, [00:53]disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, [00:57]having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia— [01:02]are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. [01:06]The point that I wish to make is this: [01:09]McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; [01:13]Rowan took the letter and did not ask: “Where is he at?” [01:19]There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze [01:23]and the statue placed in every college of the land. [01:26]It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, [01:31]but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, [01:36]to act promptly, concentrate their energies: [01:40]do the thing—“Carry a message to Garcia!” [01:44]General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. [01:49]No man has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, [01:55]but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man— [01:59]the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. [02:04]Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, [02:10]and half-hearted work seem the rule; [02:13]and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook or threat he forces [02:17]or bribes other men to assist him; [02:19]or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, [02:24]and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant. [02:27]You put this matter to a test: [02:30]You are sitting now in your office—six clerks are within call. [02:35]Summon any one and make this request: [02:38]“Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio.” [02:44]Will the clerk quietly say, “Yes, sir,” and go do the task? [02:48]On your life, he will not. [02:49]He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions: [02:54]Who was he? [02:56]Which encyclopedia? [02:58]Where is the encyclopedia? [03:01]Was I hired for that? [03:02]What’s the matter with George doing it? [03:04]Is he dead? [03:05]Is there any hurry? [03:07]Shan’t I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself? [03:10]What do you want to know for? [03:13]And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, [03:17]and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, [03:23]the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia— [03:27]and then come back and tell you there is no such man. [03:31]Of course I may lose the bet, but according to the Law of Average, I will not. [03:36]This incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, [03:42]this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift— [03:47]these are the things that put pure Socialism so far into the future. [03:52]If men will not act for themselves, [03:56]what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? [04:00]My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the “boss” is away, as well as when he is at home. [04:08]And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive, [04:14]without asking any idiotic questions, [04:17]and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, [04:22]or of doing aught else but deliver it, [04:25]never gets “l(fā)aid off” nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. [04:30]Anything such a man asks shall be granted. [04:34]He is wanted in every city, town and village and in every office, shop, store and factory. [04:42]The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly— [04:47]the man who can “Carry a Message to Garcia”.

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