[ti:7] [ar:男人强励志英文] [00:01.604]How to send a message to Garcia 怎样把信送给加 [00:09.796]西亚 [00:10.182]When war broke out between Spain and the [00:13.75]United States it was very necessary to [00:15.697]communicate quickly with the leader of the [00:18.224]insurgents.Garcia was somewhere in the [00:20.796]mountain vastness of Cuba-no one knew where. [00:22.927]No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. [00:28.230]The president must secure his cooperation,and [00:30.559]quickly. [00:31.858]What to do! [00:33.298]Some one said to the president,“there ’s a [00:36.297]fellow by the name of rowan will find Garcia [00:39.232]for you,if anybody can.” [00:41.985]Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be [00:45.438]delivered to Garcia.How “the fellow by the [00:48.825]name of rowan ”took the letter,sealed it up [00:51.524]in an oil-skin pouch,strapped it over his [00:54.350]heart,in four days landed by night off the [00:56.786]coast of Cuba from an open boat,disappeared [00:58.432]into the jungle,and in three weeks came out [01:01.937]on the other side of the island,having [01:03.407]traversed a hostile country on foot,and [01:05.899]delivered his letter to Garcia-are things I [01:07.469]have no special desire now to tell in detail. [01:10.825]The point that I wish to make is this: [01:13.402]McKinley gave rowan a letter to be delivered [01:18.248]to Garcia;rowan took the letter and did not [01:20.42]ask:“where is he at?” [01:22.818]There is a man whose form should be cast in [01:25.343]deathless bronze and the statue placed in [01:29.591]every college of the land.It is not book- [01:33.795]learning young men need,nor instruction about [01:35.173]this and that,but a stiffening of the [01:38.87]vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to [01:41.29]a trust,to act promptly,concentrate their [01:42.698]energies:do the thing-“carry a message to [01:47.281]Garcia!” [01:47.670]General Garcia is dead now,but there are [01:51.310]other Garcias.No man who has endeavored to [01:54.152]carry out an enterprise where many hands were [01:58.341]needed,but has been well-nigh appalled at [02:01.712]times by the imbecility of the average man-the [02:03.593]inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a [02:06.308]thing and do it. [02:08.36]Slipshod assistance,foolish inattention, [02:08.880]dowdy indifference,and half-hearted work seem [02:15.665]the rule;and no man succeeds,unless by hook [02:19.378]or crook or threat he forces or bribes other [02:22.751]men to assist him;or mayhap,god in his [02:25.545]goodness performs s miracle,and sends him an [02:28.222]angel of light for an assistant. [02:30.781]You put this matter to a test: [02:33.411]You are sitting now in your office-six clerks [02:36.325]are all within call.Summon any one and make [02:40.13]this request:“please look in the [02:41.778]encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for [02:44.987]me concerning the life of Correggio.”Will [02:47.436]the clerk quietly say,“yes,sir,”and go do [02:49.855]the task? [02:50.418]On your life,he will not.He will look at you [02:54.715]out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the [02:58.711]following questions: [02:59.112]Who was he? [03:01.349]Which encyclopedia?Where is the encyclopedia? [03:04.455]Was I hired for that?What ’s the matter with [03:07.325]George doing it?Is he dead?Is there any [03:11.313]hurry?Shan ’t I bring you the book and let [03:13.806]you look it up yourself?What do you want to [03:15.950]know for? [03:16.840]And I will lay you ten to one that after you [03:20.466]have answered the questions,and explained how [03:23.68]to find the information,and why you want it, [03:26.812]the clerk will go off and get one of the other [03:30.596]clerks to help him try to find Garcia-and [03:35.131]then come back and tell you there is no such [03:38.663]man.Of course I may lose the bet,but [03:40.859]according to the law of average,I will not. [03:42.542]This incapacity for independent action,this [03:45.189]moral stupidity,this infirmity of the will, [03:48.495]this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold [03:49.672]and lift –these are the things that put pure [03:54.470]socialism so far into the future.If men will [03:58.616]not act for themselves,what will they do when [04:00.868]the benefit of their effort is for all? [04:04.243]My heart goes out to the man who does his work [04:08.375]when the “boss ”is away,as well as when he [04:11.555]is at home.And the man who,when given a [04:14.804]letter for Garcia,quietly takes the mission, [04:17.442]without asking any idiotic questions,and with [04:20.666]no lurking intention of chucking it into the [04:23.882]nearest sewer,or of doing aught else but [04:26.450]deliver it,never gets “laid off ”nor has to [04:31.747]go on a strike for higher wages. [04:34.493]Anything such a man asks shall be granted.He [04:38.93]is wanted in every city,town and village and [04:42.30]in every office,shop,store and factory.The [04:44.576]world cries out for such:he is needed and [04:49.412]needed badly-the man who can “carry a [04:52.178]message to Garcia ”.