New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-23

multitude The most effective preacher is no more
effective for his Hebrew. Greek, and Latin-for his
biblical and classical lorei mother wit ID his best
prompter after moral earnestness and an intelligence
well furnished with Immediately available information
is his best outfit. state church requires state
clergy amply endowed with erudtion. But tie peo-
pie require pastors and preachers in the same condition
OF life and on the same plane of experience with them
selves. For the res.-the commercial classes the
trading classes the industrial and agricultural classes
demand the same thing with notifications. They
NAV hold positions in church and state, and Tust be
literally instructed in departments generally con-
nectcd thercwith they must be qualified to become
intelligent voters, respectable politicians, decent
writers and speakers pasSable men of affairs; but
above all they must be qualified to become good far
merS, able mechanics, competent engineers, capable
men in practical sciences aud arts, fair mathemati-
Clans calculators chemists thrifty economists, and
generally good men of all work. The great business
of the country is now, and will for long time be, the
development Of its material resources, the comfortable
subsistence of the common people, the application OF
discoveries industry, the social emancipation of the
"masses" (beggng pardon for The phrase the adjust
ment Of honest relations between different orders OF
daon of laws to liberties and the establishment OF
institutions for culture health and entertainment such
as beft republican communities. This business de-
mands the united efforts of all Americans, from the
least to the greatest in their several spheres of ability
and as far as education advance it, it must be ad-
yanced by the common schools from the primary
schools of the village to the high schools like Nc
Granville and Antioch and the seminaries OF more
pretension. Even universities like the noble one OF
Michigan, will be abundanty occupied with this labor.
The few that can afford the luxury OF an elaDorateiy
trained mind and finished scholarship VIII ma
abundant accommodation and respectable facilities III
our older colleges" If they need a finer culture
than they can find there they must hire private tutors
or study in Europe But our best colleges are waking
up TO the idea that they planted in America, that
their patrons are Americans that the young men who
come to them are to grow up into the responsibilities
of American duty and they are admitting the import
ance OF giving the new system predomlnance over
the Old This was the burden of discourse among the
Alumni of Harvard at their recent anniversary. NO
clique of theorists is laborng to effect this change
The genius of American life is producing it; the ge-
Mus of American life is demanding that all the wealth
and power and talent that is given to education IN
America is none too much to be given toward the
equipment of our young men and women for the duties
Immediately before them-the imperative duties OF
new people, in new country, under new laws oil So
ca existence and new principles of civil and political
o,.qauization. The tendency bewalled at Geneva Is
simply tendency toward an educational system aS
well suited to che United States the old system Is
to Europe. The time may come when we can devote
ourselves the production of fine scholars, COM
pete in all the branches OF liberal educaucn; out
that time is remote yet, and will not be urgent
enough to engage the attention of our educators at
large till the present condition of American life shall
be considerably modified.