New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-24

Try or education in the presence of company so
pertaining to NewEng.and even your dinner has
enjoyed the advantages of liberal education ana
long interval between this feast OF I.ucullus and
ahr arcnac period when The family neld
mothers Influenced the dinners OF future genera
In the world of thought and letters we are even
more widely separated from our early New England
always ready to 90 back to The %hoesome prod
ucts Of the farm, filed with the Of the fields
We canno- revert to ancestral IDEAS and conceptions
rocked to sleep in our cradles Proud we may be
OF our descent We are etll more proud Of our prog
ers for there are our young barbarians all at play.
But even these most conservative institutions have
ca on S cond T an h spen aid
palaces o. Yale and Harvard. they would not only
bat that we have learned to build. both architect
have dreamed Of building. Like our dinners, in
stltutions have become cosmopolitan When those
no conception Of the brilliant renue OF idea that
would stream through the open portal The freedom
which has given US not only our political constu-
tons Of State and Nation but republic Of the in
tons and security (Applause)
AN AID IN PREDICTING ITS DESTINY
r. modern science teaches. nothing is intel
ligble except through its history the origin of this
generation should go far toward enabling us TO pre-
dict It's destiny. 1T Is prcdgious point gained"
tain what nature intended him for. This is not the
result OF any teaching. but each mans discovery OF
shaped and developed through centuries of time
! IN the race and lineage that speak in him and
through him and command him to complete their UNI
There is an old legend which tells how long ago.
tany. was swallowed up,by the sea. When a storm
sweeps the surface of the deep, the lonely sailor
the d h %ne cain Gro1ds upon
| a oh I'M mo fhn sin
of another time Every man carries In his bosom
M S that is Ike the fablSd cy and from the
| breaking his profoundest silence. In the hidden
cestors secret power shapes his life to purposes
larger than his own. and lifts him In moments OF in
! spiration above his conscious and voluntary self
1t is in this relation to the past. and not in any
! teaching brought from afar. that must seek for
day for the world when The human soul stood naked
! continent in the name of freedom. The memory of
that day and of the history that has grown out of
became possible through severe sef S ns
! For this i; was not needed that great learning or
men who were pure and true should face afresh the
| deep problems OF life in order TO reconstruct its
| institutions upon new foundation.
GREAT MEN NEEDED
| For the full accomplishment Of this task. great
| mon were needed but great men do not drop Ike
meteors from the sky they grow like oaks ont OF
the earth. and their roots strike down through gen
eratons of obscure lives that make greatness pos
!
| fce until they blend in natures supreme triumph
truly heroic man. As one Of New England's
J patriots helped TO make Washington a thousand
lovers OF liberty contributed 20 Lincoln. God has
not let one of them lie wasted" And we might add
| with equal truth that the love OF thousand
mothers and the fidelity of thousand fathers took
| shape and substance In the magnificent manhood
! Of Phillips Brooks himself (Applause)
II is the privilege OF every human being TO set his
| own particular star in the armament. and the
fathers OF our New England civilization set in their
sky the bright star 0: truth, which led them the
! birthplace Of new redemption. Great ideas
great men and great events" says Guizot cannot
/ be measured by the magnitude Of their cradles
and the splendid fertility Of New-Engand's crca-
tive period certainly had prophecy In her earliest
colonies. But every great creation ana every step
OF progress require the concurrence Of two powers
! the power of the man and the power Of the moment
( and the moment is sure to come when the man Is
ready Great events In science and literature spring
on the realities OF ature or society. and In that
heritance of absolute sincerity were contained the
! predestined forces OF New England's intellectual
II Is fact OF deep significance that civilization
apart from conquest, moves mainly along isother-
NAL lines The destiny OF nations and OF the human
movement OF ideas can permanently defect the
/ boundaries which fix the types OF civilization be-
erful influence is the epitomc and digest Of a more
local habitat. the reflex in mind and body Of a geo
I troduced where Gef-dscpline is not reinforced by
the conditions OF life. for in the things OF mind ana
/ character Local Inheritance Is a power for when
education Is equivalent or substitute There is an
/ American type OF character. home-born and home
! bred. exclusively native TO New-England but
peculiar TO our civilization.
WHAT MAKES NATION
! a nation Is not a mere aggregate OF men, II is
composed substantially Of natives sprlpg from the
sol! and rooted in H. whose bodies are made - It's
elements, whose minds the living memory Of It's
traditions and whose Wills are set toward the