Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-09-07

whose work on The Human Intellect is ono
Of the few books published by the church which
IS regarded by scholars. as authority, say, that
education, and especially in mental and moral
science, can only be gained by constant re.
petition" This society proposes to give gen
eral and comprehensive instruction in their
branches to all grades Of intelligence, but alasi
Veral, the dark Beyond cannot be fathomed.
Belief is a, best but hope which is common
to Ill humanity and faith is an idolatry dehed
only by inevitable death. As Pope says,
a little learning is dangerous thing and yours
Is doubly dangerous on classical authority, and
irply SO when it attempts to compete with
this practical 'work.a.day lie when know.
ledge is power. You may make braggau Of
farmers boy or fool Of a physician, but
that your arguments are right you will never
prove il they arc reduced to sylogisms."
~ grant you that the scAoidr is not going to
be confined to any body's course of study
The proportion Of scholars TO the grand aggre
gate Of humanity always has been and probably
slways will be small, grant you all that, yet I
believe in the society and for these reasons
"FirTt-Many persons are mildly ambitious
to know more, yet, from lack Of mental alertness
or because they are not surrounded by an at.
| niosphere calculated to properly direct this
desire, fail TO make the effort NJ else follow an
cratic course that does them no good Such
find in the Chadtauqua course help, because
at least definite course Of study is prepared
for them.
"SteoH6-The mere fact that success in the
Chautauqua course ncceSsitates persistent daily
work does much to form the habit OF systematic
study which, to most students, is inseparable
from success. The man or woman who can
wres, from the exac,ing routine Of the
average daily life forty minutes for study is Ear
more likely to make profitable otherwise idle
or profifless time--thc time that is too gene
rally FILTERED away--than IL the forty minutes
study had never been attempted. In this age,
as in every age, no matter who may plan the
campaign, 1t is the rank and file who must do
the fighting. Here and there, now and then,
| some great scholar gives the world new idea,
or unearthS from the debris Of a haf.forgotten
past some old idea that ought never to have
been buried To the average intelligence the
new idea and the old alike, are part Of
sealed book--,hat might as well have been
written in the cunform writing of Assyria.
There must be translation, adaptation, simpi.
ication before great discovery is understood
of mankind. 1t is truth that the world needs
No rosy hand maid, she
But queen Of queens -
and hold that even SO poor course as you
make out the Chautauquan TO be helps its stu.
dents not only to seek truth but 20 know her
likeness when found. And is the mighty stimu.
lus Of united effort nothing Think Of twenty
thousand Chautauquans studying the same
historic epoch, or-think of it, Ioma-sipping
together the nectar from your own sonnets p
Alack the taffy had been lavished
vainly. saw by the gentle vibration of his
chin that Iona was asleep. | left him soft
not convinced at least silenced