The record-union., 1893-06-22

value.
"A mechanical department will be one
OF the features of the university. Invent
i've genius will be enlarged and educated.
This university ideal differs from that
which is obtained in other and measur-
ably similar institutions in but one par
tloular. The university ideal of the past
has been the requirement of theoretical
knowledge. The university 1 have
founded joins the theoretical to the prac-
tlcal, thus preserving the balance in the
development of the mind between the
knowledge of natural law and the actual
application of those laws as a means of
success in any calling.
ut will be the aim of the university to
become the seat of all useful learning,
the repository of discovery in every
branch OF useful industry. Muscular de-
velopment may be achieved IN the gym
! nasium and yet the hand remain un-
trained to any skill of handicraft; and so
mind may be evolved by educational
processes but divorced from any faculty
OF application of its varied powers when
confronted by the problem of civilized
lie. The university will recognize this
important fact, and will aim to mold in
the mind OF its students an inseparable
union in the evolution of theoretical and
practical knowledge. To repeat what
has already been said, it will seek to
teach the law of success in every calling.
TO my mind there is nothing Utopian
in this design. Observation has con-
vlnced me that very large class of edu-
| Gated men, who, when they enter the
practical walks of life, are regarded by
the graduates of apprenticeship as im-
practicables, have been unfortunate only
/ n the one respect of having been trained
IN schools located so remotely from the
fields and workshops into which they
should have been graduated as the next
most natural and nearest step. Educa-
ton should bring men by the most logi-
| cal gradations into the callings they are
to pursue in life. To do this is the un-
DERIVING thought of the university. Be-
yond all this, however, the requirement
OF character and moral purpose are the
great essentials of success. Some degree
of personal success may be achieved
without them, but it has been the most
earnest purpose of all my thought in this
direction to elevate the character of citi-
zenship; and to my mind the most schol-
arIy attainments are those which produce
capacities for outward prosperity with
inward dignity, purity and grace.
1t has been part of my most earnest
! purpose to make the university a con-
servator of right theories of government.
! That theory of government which con-
templates man as merely the slave of So
ciety, necessarily converts the will of the
majority into an absolutism. There is no
| difference between the maxim that the
majority can do no wrong than that the
king can do no wrong. There is no dis
tlnction between brute force of mere
numerical superiority and the usurpa-
tions of an aristocracy. 10 my mind,
the highest conception of government is
that which recognizes in each individual
citizen the possession of certain natural
and inalienable rights; rights sacred from
| the invasion of the will of majorities:
rights which inhere in man as an endow-
| ment OF his creator, and which govern
ments, however constituted, do not pos
! sess the right to invade. Iu becoming a
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that man must surrender that degree of
absolute freedom consistent with the
good OF the body polite, but even after
conceding this, there remains inalienable
| rights growing out of the nature of man
\ and his responsibilities, with which the
individual has not invested government
with the right of interference or abridge-
ment. So far from having the right to
invade or destroy these inalienable
rights, it is the primary object of govern
ment to preserve them.
Our great charter of liberty has pro-
claimed these rights in unmistakable
terms as those of Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness This is a decia-
ration that each man has right to him
self, to the result of his toll, to the product
of the labor of his hands, to the love of
those endeared to him, to the acquire
ment of wealth, honorable distinction.
the qualification of laudable ambition and
to the attainment of elevated character.
| The endowment of these inalienable
rights formed the boundaries of life and
liberty, into which the government pre-
rogative may not enter. To encroach
upon them would be an invasion OF
natural rights. To concede that thew
have been alienated, that the right of gov
ernmental interference with individual
liberty is without bound, is to invest a
| Government, whatever its form, with the
prerogatives of tyranny. In it's early ira
diIons our own Government recognized
these principles. The profound enunci-
ations of the Declaration of Independ-
ence were better understood and more re-
vered. The contrast between the Gov
ernment here established and the us11rpa-
tions against which it was a sublime
protest, was more nearly present in the
minds of those contemporaneoUs with its
foundation.
1.-The doctrine that all just governmen:
is based upon the consent of the gov
erned, operates limitations by the realm
of governmental prerogative. 1t dis
closes to US the idea of government as
the result OF compact between individ-
uals, sovereign of themselves, investing
the government called into being by that
consent, with governmental jurisdiction
over all social relation, but reserving to
each and every integral part of that aggre.
gated sovereignty the dignity of inalien-
able right, reserved to the individual. no,
surrendered to the government. 1t has
been one of the most profound purposes
of my mind in founding the university
to promote the acceptance of these doc.
trines among men.
Third, and in general, leading feat
ure lying at the foundation of the uni.
versity, relates to the cooperation o.
labor. The wealth-producing power Of
each individual is discounted when he
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