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Updated: May 14, 2025
But, although good-nature is temperamental, and although some men and women are, by their force of imagination and charity, forced to poetize the truth, the question remains an open one, Which is the nearest to truth, a pessimist or an optimist? The faculty of observation differs, and the faculty of language is variable.
Oh, these "optimists"! To revel in a world which more and more closely resembles all that the poets ever imagined of Hell, is to be an "optimist"! One wonders how it is that in no brief moment of lucidity it occurs to these people that the lower we descend in the scale of life the greater the quantity in a species and the poorer the quality, so that to reach what such people should really regard as the world's period of supreme greatness in life we must go back to the days, before animal life appeared, when the earth was merely a teeming mass of bacteria.
So incorrigible an optimist was Milton Caukins that any slight degree of success, which might attend the promotion of any one of his numerous schemes, caused an elation that amounted to hilarity.
Next morning he told his wife. "Do you suppose I produced any effect?" he asked her anxiously. "If she really thinks over what I said, she must be touched! unless she's made of flint. I said all the wrong things but I did rub it in." "I'm sure you did," said his wife, smiling. Then she looked at him with a critical tenderness. "You dear optimist!" she cried, and slipped her hand into his.
It is only just to say that success is generously defined and the disciples of this New Thought are asked also to live in the finer senses the recognition of beauty and friendship and goodness, that is but on the whole the ideal character so defined is a buoyant optimist who sells his goods, succeeds in his plans and has his own way with the world.
We feel safe when we doubt the success of another, because if he should succeed we can say we were glad we were mistaken, and so step from a position of good judgment to one of generous disposition without feeling that we have changed our plane of merit. But the optimist often gets himself into terrible scrapes, for if he is wrong he cannot say he is glad of it.
Or perhaps it would be more honest to say that Mr.. Marrier had suffered no inconvenience from the contretemps. His apparent gleeful zest in life had not been impaired. He was a born optimist, of an extreme type unknown beyond the circumferences of theatrical circles. "I say," he emphasized, "I've got an ideah. We ought to be photographed like that. Do you no end of good."
It took us three months, to wake up to what had happened, and a year to get over feeling as if there was sand in our eyes when we compared the second showing with the first. An optimist is as bad as a drunkard when he comes to figure up results in business he sees double. I employ optimists to get results and pessimists to figure them up.
"Don't believe that guy got hep to our number! Didn't have time," an optimist found courage to declare. "What darn fool was it that shot first? Oughta be crowned for that!" "Aw, the boob started it himself! He fired on us and we were only joshing!" "He got his, all right!" "Don't believe we killed him sure, he was more scared than hurt," put in the optimist dubiously.
It's almost fatal, Mrs. Travers." "Why all this dismay? Why do you object to a world of dreams?" "Because I dislike the prospect of being made a sacrifice of by those Moors. I am not an optimist like our friend there," he continued in a low tone nodding toward the dismal figure of Mr. Travers huddled up in the chair.
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