Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-21
Education aud Ru-ine.a.

From the Norwich Conn Bullrtin.
The question whether educated men 40
equally successful in money-making hus,ne~,
with some other men lie still being discussed 4,
our exchanges. and it is still 10 he ol.sery.S
that few college graduates seem 10 tas. Of
Tense because Mr.. Carnegie and otl ers HE hin
insist that they not. For the lie 81 us ws
can't see wis they should fell the least l,ttle
bit stirred ap over the assertion. For il b. q
Tact, and fact highly creditable 10 education.
ZOO.
There are two distinct schools ~ though, 4,
this age ~ ours. One starts out With the as
sumption that the chief duty % nun l. 20 ess
money. The other starts out with the equally
fundamental assumption that man has nurner-
GUS duties and privileges. that money making IA
only one of them aud that Their, are several
which are not only more important. but murs
worthy Of manly ambition and manly effort
For a recent instance take the case of Prof
White of Cambridge. He IL college rraslusss.
an educated man. n scholar. He has rank and
fame and influence In his chosen studies The
other day he was offered n situation ia a neg
western college of more endowment than attain
ment at an increase of $1,000 a wear salarv He
refused the offer. His work was - more inn
portance TO him than high salarv: his sense
% Usefulness, his means for continued study
and enlarging knowledge. his opportunities for
acknowledgment were more attractive than q
change which would mean simply more money.
And therein. according 90 the muney-gcttina
school, he displayed his absolute lack % ''bua-
ness sense" Nor j. there the slightest doubt
hat his previous education led him 70 this dis
plny OF unbusness-like qualitier-was indeed
the chief cause Of It,
Ever s,nce the DAYS Of the kings Of Ind and
their ''barbaric pearl aud gold il has REQUIRED
no college other education 20 produce = Low,
for gold and the gliding which gold can 1--WE
TO the furniture of life. hlt il has often re-
quired some higher training 10 eradicate this
semi-barbaric fondness for the lower and sup
plant II with real interest in and "a rial long
ing for the higher
Did Milton write "parniise Lost for money2
He got f5 for IL. and would have written IL n
IL had not brought him farthing. He was not
calculated 30 win Cuisines success" hut the
world could have better spared several shrewd
money getters of Charles the Seconds London
than it, one Milton. He-schel gave up his life
TO the study of the starr. and all his wurk
brought him in little IL any more money than
he could have earned n confids ntial clerk,
with half the labor and huudredth part Of The
mental strain. Fnraiay opened new realms of
science to wondering world. which would
never have been dreamed uf had Far.day
and those like him been thinking sol,ly OF ''bus-
ness Success" But the world could better have
spared every millionaire IN London of FaradAy's
time than that one business-lise thinker and en-
perimenter. The list might be extended OF ana
on tlll 4: would NIL the great volumes Of a bio
graphical cyclopedia Of men who Ind deliber-
ately devoted their lives 90 something else than
business success" becaure they considered
something else more important and more vor-
thy of their efforts. They did not ride in gilt
tering carriages during their lives nor come TO
live in marble halls, but to-day. because Of
them, the world advances in a wider stmoe-
phere and looks out into grander universe and
lives on a higher plane.
Ii is the browning glory Of education that Il
leads the mind 10 appreciate and desire other
things besides the sensuous luxury which money
can produce or the destinations display IL con
provide. That would be n false educatiou
which should declare business success an un-
worthy ambition. such talk would be non
sensical- Ii l. a worthy ambition and one for
no man TO be ashamed of. But IL Is false
school Of thought which Glasses il by itself no
the only worthy ambition Of lie. and which
makes il touchstone 20 try men vithal The
training which leads men 20 comprehend and
strive for other kinds Of success is a good thing
and a priceless thing. as the sunlight which
broadens over a whole universe Of diverse life
is better thing than the narrow lightning
fash which momentarily hghtens up single
county