The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-12
THE TEACHERS AT DENVER.
Lecture by Prof. lie Conte ON the The
Ory of Evolution.

"A
Lecture by Prof. lie Conte ON the The
DRY of Evolution.
Denver, July 1.-THE National Educa-
tional Association today elected the follow
ing officers: President. Newton c. Dough-
erty. Peoria, H.: first vice president,
Nicholas Murray Butler. New York; sec
ond vice president. Mrs. A. ]. Peavey,
Denver: third vice president, w. FL. Bar
tholomeT, Louisville, KY; fourth vice
president. n. c. Schaefer. Harrisburg,
Pa; fifth vice president, W. ~. Sheats,
Tallahassee. Fla: sixth vice president.
Henry Sabin, Des Moines, Iowa; seventh
vice president, T.. f. McElroy, Portland,
Or; eighth vice president, c. g. Pearse,
Beatrice, Neb.; ninth vice president,
Henry r. Pettengill Lansing, Mich: tenth
vice president. r. II. Halsey. Oshkosh.
Wis. eleventh vice president, 7. 3. Lew
ia, Ogden. Utah; twelfth vice president,
Estelle Reel. Cheyenne. Wyo.; secretary.
Irwin Shepard, Winona, Mimi: treasurer,
i. c. Mcneil. Kansas City.
Among the directors are: Idaho. e. 3.
Gault; Oregon, j. II. Alderman; Wash
ington, F. j. Barnard.
The general subject of the papers for
the morning session were: THE duty and
opportunity of schools in promoting pa
friotism and good citizenship
George Fl. Martin. supervisor OF schools
Baldwin Austin. Tex. treated of the sub
ject, Patriotism of the Southland" He
said the people OF the South rejoiced today
that the lost cause was lost. The great
question in the South was lifting up the
colored race to citizenship, and 1t was be-
ing done. He spoke in defense of the
whites in restricting political rights to the
blacks. A P. Marble. superintendent OF
schools, Omaha, Neb., read a paper on
The Ethical Element in Patriotism
The papers were discussed by W. II.
Bartholomew. of Louisville: G. p. Gilbert,
of st. Paul, and ]. r. Preston. state SUI
perintendent of mississippi. All agreed
that the battlefield was not the place for
the display OF the truest patriotism,
and that one of the highest moral
duties of the teachers was that
of intoxicating love of home and ma
tive land. Schoolhouse patriotism was
uniting all sections OF the nation. The
morning session closed with the singing of
America" by the audience.
In the afternoon the departments held
sessions at the different churches and
school buildings. Distinguished educators
read papers, amongst whom was Earl
Barnes of the Stanford university, on
''Child study" Prof. W. ]. Whiteman, of
Denver. with class of fifty little chill
dren. entertained the various departments
with an exhibition OF chorus work
At the evening session Prof. Joseph lie
Conte of the University of California.
read a paper on 1.-THE Effect of the Theory
OF Evolution on Education"
Evolution, he said, has been recognized
vaguely from the earliest times, but only
recently applied to life. 1t has revolu-
tionized our whole view of nature and
man, and modified philosophy and the
theory and methods OF education. 1t has
changed the naturalist of the past. who
merely collected the wonders of nature
to the biologist who Analyses Science
is studied by three methods: BY symbols
or the mathematical methods, by expert
ment and by comparison. or the evolu-
ton methods. The latter Is .he most
widely efficient. BY tracing the grada-
lions of life down from the highest verte-
brates to the Invertebrates: from the
mating germ cell: from the fauna of
today back to the earlier Pc
RODS, and by comparing the results.
we gain all our knowledge OF biology.
This meth~d may he applied to all phe-
nomena Of human life. Psychology can
no longer be studied as science discon-
nected with other knowiedges. There is
now no doubt that man. both In body and
spirit came by process OF evolution from
some lower fora of animal Evolution
teaches that nothing originates all at
once by fat. but all things come by
growth: new forms come not by deStruc-
Con and recrea tian. but by modification
Of the old. The ancient idea was that
the individual should always be sacri
feed 20 the good Of society as the greater
and more important organism; the new
idea is that the individual immortal soul
is more important than all the temporal
social institutions: evolution recognizes
the Importance of the individual, but sees
IN society the means of raising IL 10 the
ideal humanity. and that only by SUBJ
ordinating individual interests can this
be achieved Evolution refutes the the
ory that man has fallen from 4 state OF
perfection. which can only he -egained
through miraculous agency, but places
the golden age in the future. The
celtic believes man is a dual nature. a
pure spirit which must for its own ele-
walton trample upon the impure body.
Hedonistie philosophy makes man but a
kind Of animal. whose pleasures are pure
IN phySea,. Evolution combines the two
theories ard while rot supnressing the
phvsical suhordinates Il 10 the spiritual
the one giving strength and Sigor and the
other refinement 20 the uhsuation. The
lover animal has only the present: man
has. through memory and Imagination.
the pssf and future. The animal has
only self. man through sympathy and
love has many selves. Through evolu-
ton. seifhooi ~ man Is revealed and a
once lost again IN love.
The Educational Press Association was
Organized here today with the following
officers: 4 = Winship. New England
Journal Of Education. president: William
g Smith. School Education. secretary:
George p Brown. Public school Journal
treasurer. The next regular meeting viii
be in February 81 jacksonville. Fla