The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-01-12
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HORNfR,
Report of the Executive COMMITTEES.

below We PRINT q lew eXLractS HOun
the address of President j. w. Horner.
delivered at the dedication. Our readers
will doubtless be disappointed in not haV-
ing this excellent address in full, as was
expected. For reasons which it is u1nec
essary to give. the author only furnishes
US with the following brief extracts.
We print, also. the reportof the Board
of Directors of the Executive Committee:
The lecture was review of our Elu-
cational System, and was listened to with
deep interest and close attention.
The outer aud the inner life, toll of
the hand and toll of the head. thought
and action, brain sweat aud brow sweat,
these make up the sum and circle of hu
man life. Reason on his throne like an
other Neptune. sways his scepter over the
waters of our inner Ire, passion lsshes i:
into storms. Emotions heave and swell
its bosom; desires impel it's ocean cur
rents, and imagination paints il In fancy 5
phos phoTescent light. Our outer life is
but the dashing of the waves of our inner
one upon the rocky barrier of material
things. Wherever thought, feeling or
voliIion touches the material world, il
crystalizes in the forms of art, just as the
vaporY particle, when it is waited into
the starry crystal. The outer life is but
the product Of the iuner and bears its i'm
press. As the creator IS above the crea-
ture, the architect above his work, the
fountain above the stream, SO is the inner
above the outer. Worthless and naked is
! the outer life except as it ministers to the
inner. The spring of happines, long
sought Ike the sources of the Nile, lies
away up amoung the mountains Of the
inner life. The melody of music has no
charm for the ear that is dull, nor the
glorles OF the landscape for the eye that is
dim. The wild Usage rrior, fresh from
! his bunting grounds, gazss in wonder for
while upon the refnements of civilized
| life, and goes back to his savage homs.
! lie cannot estimate and enjoy the outer
civilization because he has no civiliZa-
lion within. Thought and work carry
forward civilization from age to age,
and honored alike are thinkers aud work
ers. DOVE deep in the dark mines of
earth the coal HEAVIER tolls that he may
bring comfort and happiness to many a
happy hreside. By the glimmer of the
dim lamp the pale student of science
bends over his task, and FORCES the thought
ihat shall bless humanity. The sinewy
arm that strikes in battle fray for God or
country, or plants the flower or makes
two blades of grass to grow where but one
did grow before, that Wielis the pen or
spade, or casts the seed, or guides The plow
is blessed of God. 1t is the first BUSH ess
of thought to think, but it is not the bus
mess of work to work without thought
Ali thought accomplishes something The
long search Of the alchemist for the elixir
of life and the Philosophers stone, led to
the discoveries Of modern chemistry.
Astrology directed the eyes of men to the
stars, aud gave birth TO mo lern astEon-
omy. Mohammedanism, the central idea
of which was one God, destroyed Poly
tLei m. or the idea of many gods. Modern
! spirtualism has modified the oithordox
notion of heaven, its pursuits and char
acter as slate ofprogress.
Hydropathy, as a science. a school of
medicine. has tau ghI men that a clean
cuticle, if not next to a clean conscience
is a cure for half the minor ills that flesh
is heir to.
Homeopathy has broken the lAncetof
! old school medicus, banished his blisLers,
and blood suckers, and reduced the 81.
of his pills and portions.
"a modern eseulapius equipped With
the pr odigious saddle bags that were once
necessary TO contain his nostrums, would
DE mistaken for a United States mail
contractor, especially if he should chance
to have the frank AMI open counteuance
and honest face that belongs to Govern
ment officials. From the Intricate rela
lions of the inner and the outer life We gain
the closest and most perfect notion of edu-
cation. 1t is the drawing cut of the crea-
tive, thought producing power
Civilization is nothing more than edu
cation, or rather the results Of education.
dltfused among the people. All can see
the results Of education, but only those
can comprehend the process, who have
passed through it. Superior mind must
educate inferior. This fact must modify
and shape our educational system Com.
mon schools must do tbs work of educ4~
ting the masses. Union schools and nor
NAL schools furnish the teachers for com
IlOu 5CuOOlS ahh prepare iOi tile
colleges. Colleges prepare the teachers
for the union and normal schools, and
prepare students for the university.
The university provides professors for
the colleges. the mslns of pursuing pro
fessional studies, aud scientific and liter
AIRY studies to completeness. The latter
makes the ripe scholars who make the
books of the age, the stories from which
the simplest elements of knowledge are
drawn.
Speaking of our State institutions, and
their reed of legislative aid the lectruer
said as follows:
1t is to be hoped from the character for
intelligence of our state legislature aboIt
to assemble, that they will adopt lber-
al and generous policy of support for our
state institutions of learning. In the
brief forty days of their session, they may
do work that shall last for forty centu
ries. Let no narrow questions OF finance
deter them from extending a generous,
liberal helping hand to rear those proud,
enduring monuments of our intelligence
and love of humanity. We, of TO day,
are but little handful compared with the
mighty population, bat half a Century
hence will sWarm the Sraties aud people