The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1883-06-13

o. 4 hippopo taliius IN the middle Of
/ the Arabian desert as It would Be
to convince a cynic that there is 4
man ii the world other than him
self. / am not a cynic. The world
is not orphaned Of men. They
have lived in all times They in
crease with the ages. They are
destined to multiply in the earth
until the manhood the long
promised millennium shall usher III
the coronation Of our kind, and
bring for each brow the purest, no
blest, brightest diademof manhood.
Manhood is the goal Of the man and
of thearace, beyond which tits i'm
possible to rise. We may grow in
it but not beyond it. 1t is the
highest term respecting man you
can possibly use. It implies round
ness, completeness, Wilderness. All
other terms descriptive Of manare
partial. Goodness, trueness, great
ness, the. scholar, hero, saint, these
are all segments of the great circle,
the centre and circumference OF
which is man. 1t is difficult to
rise to the contemplation of man
in this broad and high sense,
for the reason that. our / ideas
are generally SO false, and par
tial, occupying our narrow stand
point, we look out upon: our
patch of sky. and imagine that
is all Of space Or light or beauty
that the world contains. Our
ideals may be small or great; they
vary with country, cline, religion,
culture; they are for the mo st part
partial, and beyond them we never
rise. Ask the savage what tits to
be a man, and he will point you
to the sWift-footed hunter, the sue
cessful warrior whose wigwam IS
strung with scalps and whose tower
ing form and giant might are at once
the pledge and earnest Of victory
in every encounter Ask the bully;
and he will gruh1y answer, The
trained fighter" he of the ~brawny
arm, the toughened fibre and hercu-
lean strenghth! The scholar says.
"No, tits the stored and eVeloped
mind, he who has conversed in all
tongues and drank from the wells
Of wisdom .undefled5 in all ages
and of every cline, The philoso-
pherw speaks of the marvellous
powers Of nature. HE IS most
1nAll whas Ilas 80 ser.ee ia
cohlpfe llending and u inaaSfcfi1
them. He statesman Is absorbed
in the details Of political economy,
the. rise and fall Of nations, the laws
2of trade, the intricacies Of diplomat
cy, the secrets Of prosperity and
power =; to have mastered these is to
be. a man. While the mere re-
1igionist, the man who cultivates
only his moral and religious nature,
proclaims this to be the only
road to manhood. i need not
pause to say here is truth as well
error in each of these statem ents.
You cannot afford to leave out
of your definition any excellence,
They are all his. Drop out any
one and the circle is incomplete.
Man is. a threefold being. He is a
temple of which the physical is the
base. The intellectual is aisles,, the
walls. the. transept and towers.
The spiritual is the cement that
binds all together in oneness, ext
pands it to grandness, rounds it to
beatty and crowns it with comp1ete-
ness: It IS the |indwelling deity
that allies it to God and Eliminates
it with splendor. To Change the
figure, mans physical nature is
is the, warm, rich soil, the intel
leetual is the air and sunlight above
it, and the spiritual is the tree
with its thousand roots deep
twined in the one and its waving
branches and luscious fruit, high in
the other Manhood cannot be
reached therefore in the neglect of
any part Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nature.
Maflais "fearfully and wonderfully