Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-20
EDUCATION, MONEY AND
MORALS.
A Failure to Educate Children is Crime
All should "Learn 10 Labor and TO
Wait"-IEnOrance and VsgraBey
are Grimes.
., or the Sunday AppeaI.l

| The three grand principles which head
| this article constitute the foundation
and life OF every system of business, So
ciety, government, religion and family.
These principles are inseparable from
success, good order, peace and develop
ment in every sphere Of human exist
ence. An uneducated, thriftless and
vicious family, church, society, business,
or gOvernment-eSch or all-are q curse
to mankind. This point need not be
argued, for all will admit the fact. 1t is
automatic. Now let us consider our in
dividual and collective duty with refer
ence to the incubation and enforcement
Of this three-fold principle Of human ex-
istence, under the tive-fOld relation we
sustain to each other.
First-We should seek by "moraI sua-
siOn," above all things, the medication
of these principles. Education has ref
erence to the cultivation of the mind.
money the body, morals the soul. Here
l do not include, for the purposes Of this
article, religion, as the true embodiment
of morality; but such state, at least as
effects Tectitude of life according to law,
human and divine. leave out the Cos
pei, which embraces a relationship in
dependent of that between man and
man, and which absOrbs the individual
alone in his relationship with his God.
In respect Of religion no man is legally
the keeper of his brother, for all religion
is distinctively personal and voluntary
according to the teachings OF our blessed
Savior. 1t is intolerance and persecu-
ton to interfere by force with any mans
religion. Therefore, save when that reli-
giOn is 80 corrupt as to infringe upon the
principles OF moral law, it is, biSOtry to
seek even to impose moral suasiOn
against my religion without my consent,
unless my religion breaks over the
spirit Of the moral law. Then it is i'm
moral, unreasonable and corrupt, and
ought to be opposed both by moral sua-
sion and by force, as in the case Of Nor
mOnism and other systems which 1
might mention, as equally dangerous
and cOrupting in this and every other
country, if 1 were the judge and so dis
posed. But / said with respect
to education, money and morals, in all
their legal relations of family, society,
business and government, we ought to
use "mOrsl suasiOn" to inculcate them
thoroughly in every individual which
constitutes the body Of a community.
or course we have only to do with indi- |
viduals, at last, for the body is made up
of its individual units. But every indi- |
vidual should be developed, from infan-
cy up, by the radical culture of mind, |
soul and body. Man is certainly trim |
ity in his physical, Intellectual and |
moral constitution. In training the |
young idea how to shoot, we begin and |
continue the process by which all other |
developments accrue in making man 8 |
8 teeleT and an actor. We do |
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less men, nor women. Intellectual Gull |
ture is folly which does not teach man
to think, as well as give to him the key
to information; and it is q crying sin |
and a shame before God, for any FAM
lily, society, business, religion or gov
not to afford to the masses
Of their young especially the
means of knowledge, and the art
Of applying that knowledge to the
ends Of wisdom. This is the key
to all other development, and it ought
to be free to all and untrammeied by
or even prediction, save |.
upon general principles Of truth, In the
minds Of those whom we would devel-
Op. Together with mental culture
should go that Of the heart and that of
the body. A man with giants brain,
and yet whose heart is without the
principles of moral rectitude, and whose
0Ody is without the endoWments of
lardihOod and skill, is a practical and
religious dwarf, if he is not a vagabOnd
and a criminal. Corresponding with
his internal culture appears on the sur
ace the external requisites Of education,
money and morals, in all their practical
developments of family, society, BUSH
ness, church and government. mean
~ practical education, the development 7
If thought and the means of acquiring
knowledge and information, essential to
III the purposes Of practical life, at {
east, and in every respective and APP
'rOpriate sphere. 1 mean by money, ,
lot essentially so many dollars and |
.ents, but the means Of support 1
nd livelihood, in the practical ap-
,lication Of education to science and 6
ut, whether ornamental or useful. {
mean by morals, at least, the I
principles of legal rectitude applied to
very relation we sustain to family, bus g
ness, society and country. By legal 3
l imply the practical develop !
nent OF law, both human and divine. g
We should inculcate all this IN the de- @
elOpment OF individuals. !
SecOnd-ln the absence of voluntary e
( life involved in education, money and !,
MORALS. Parents, when moral suasion =
at an end, ought to enforce these upon
heir children by the rod; and if the =
amily fails of this end, society should q
ring its frowns and its Ostracism to Il
ear; and when society fails, then bust II
ess and church should volunteer their ot
lpport; and when all else fails, then p
Overnment should enforce it by laws, II
I'D under penalties. 1t ought to enforce a,
iucation upon those who have it not, 81
g, little, old and young, black or white, "
here it has been neglected from any tr
Iuse whatever, and where it is practical C
do so. The law ought to compel
an to work and to have money; that
the visible means of sup
,rt; and il the means are not at hand, el
Their to educate or to develop B
dustry, the government ought to fur q
sh the means. The law ought to COM Y
i morals, that is, legal morals, at least. a.
does pretend to enforce morals and in %
stry, but upon these points the law Is sc
most o dead letter in any country OIL T