Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-05-01
ys.s,af;ths Results u Uslssrsa, En-.

Mems Ike 10 growing wider n ID tf-
1 dfvidhais dtfAify. Few men are any
longer nothing but . farmer. or shop
keeper or . carpenter, or ssilyersmith.
| Ry. . gfaiual accretfon. in our land rs
| least, each Individual has become some-
thing more than q specialist In some
form Of business Of. industry. The edu-
cation which mas once supposed TO Inn
| ply that the youth with such books in
his hand was designing TO be lawyer.
or clergyman, or 9 physician, NO
longer involves any such conclusion,
for the average youth has become larger
than any mere drudgery, and must be
1 educated regardless Of hts form Of man.
nal or mental labor. The clergyman
once had an easy field Of intellectual
| labor, in days when he could say what
ever pleased him to an audience, that
admired largo words and plenty Of quo
tations and Obscurity. but edrcatio nhas
become so universal that the audiences
| that assemble in the churches to-day,
/ from New York to st. Paul or Denver,
are composed of persons with much In
formation, and with . powerful COM
mon sense. The inventions Of urtimes
hkve redoubled the demand for mental
culture. A man that cannot read, or
write, or think, can hoe cotton or sugar
canD, but he cannot be an engineer OF 9
steam engine, cannot be q conductor Of
even q freight train. cannot be trusted
as even . switohman. The telegraph
operator must be man or woman Of
fair education. and the thousands Of
boys who act rs messengers in street
and store must be able to read and write
quickly. Thus o hundred new pursuits
have issued new demands for q better,
informed mind, and are making q bet
ter form of manhood. {. /. i. Thus the new
forms of mechanical industry are help
ing expand the mental training and in
formation Of the laborers, thus making
man greater, not as laborer, but
as o man.. The more invention and
the more. complex machinery the
world adopts, the higher will be the
mind that must manage these new i'm
plements. A few simple negroes can
pick cotton balls, but they. could not
manage railway train or a cylinder
printing press. Theodore Parker once
expressed the wish that discriminating
or blowing might become the mere PC
cident Of q man, and not man the acct
dent of the anvil or plow. The wish ia
SLOWLY coming to it's qualification. for
the artisans are all becoming reading
and thinking men, and while thew beat
the anvil or follow the plow they ore
larger than their work, and have hours
for the separate career of the man. The
ingenuity of an age can not but exert
reflex Influence. upon all those who
come within the confines of the age it.
self. To make wider the scope Of each
individual. even the laborer. has come
In later times not only liberty. not only
Christianity. not ONLY the free school to
invite education. but even the recent
inventions have compelled the youth of
the land to seek mental development
as though for some higher art,
five wonld mari ono moro ;llus,ro.
+;on of the assertion that man ia hecom.
;nn n i.roer mind and Iaroer beart NO
ca5 find t. in tho nrasant conJ;t;nn ~
woman Atno one nisoa con NO ha,tor
in tho life If humen;tv than a. tho
standno;nt If the modern woman
When we ,oot into tho face If omr
mother mr. vito nr Jourbt.r NJ cnit;-
vated friends in this half n tho ;nt.i-
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noma hit into tho arond ;ntsr;n,
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had dona tbe;r best wort and u.hsra
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