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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE 515
A man recently said to the writer: ' 'Well, Sir, I am a
fool, and I know it. My neighbor is a fool, too, but he
does not know it."
The man who knows he is a fool is no fool. The height
of philosophical sublimity is to know oneself. The above
mentioned city of Norman, Okla., is blessed with two insti
tutions possessed respectively with these two categories of
fools. The East side institution contains fools who know
at least at times- that they are fools. The West side
establishment, pompously called University, has resound
ed occasionally to the declamations of fools who did not
know they were fools. But they were brought back to their
senses by the vigilant incumbent of the Catholic Church
and they have acted wise ever since. Any one who butts
against the Catholic Church spoils his brains, whether he
knows it or not.
From fools who do not know they are fools, deliver us,
o Lord!
Here is a story, and a good one; the incident actually
happened, says The Newark Monitor:
Some weeks ago, when the great Holy Name parades
were taking place in New Jersey, four or five men from a
little interior town in the state, resolved to go to Jersey
City to witness these demonstrations. In the partv was a
whole-souled Irishman proud of his fellow-Catholics and
rather boastful of their numbers and achievements, and a
non-Catholic, who had traveled little, and so was filled with
a narrow provincialism quite natural under the circumstan
ces. As the mighty body of men marched along, parish after
parish falling into line, the non-Catholic was overcome with
astonishment at their numbers and he said to the Irishman:
"I never knew there were so many Catholics in New Jer
sey!" And the Irishman answered: ''Sure, that is nothing.
Them's only the fellows that don't swear. You ought to
see the gang that does."

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