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most successful in producing the best
types of human character. The first
schools of the modern world We're
Christian schools. To these Christian
schools and colleges the present day
owes it's best achievements, its highest
advantages, the activities of it's inces-
SAINT progress. A school without relf-
gion is next door to a school of crime
And where the literature of history and
Of human life are studied as necessary
parts of the course, by what argument
can the literature Of religion be ex-
cluded from the studies Of children and
youth? Morals are best based on rell-
gion, and the complete document of re-
ligion is found in the Bible. Professor
Huxley, secularist as ne was, keenly
felt this. In his paper on the English
Board Schools, he said: i have always
been strongly in favor Of secular educa-
ton, in the sense of education without
theology; but / must confess l have
been no less seriously perplexed to know
by what practical measures the reli-
gious feeling, which is the essential
basis of conduct, was to be kept up,
without the use of the Bible
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SELF asked Goethe Never by thinking,
but by doing Now, this knowledge of
self in the large sense" says the New
York Outlook" lis precisely the
knowledge which ripens and clarifies US,
which gives us sanity, repose and
power To know what is in humanity
and what life means to humanity, we
must study humanity in its active, not
it's passive, moods; in the hours when it
is doing, not thinking. Sooner or later
all it's thinking which has any reality in
it passes on into action. The emotion.
passion, thought, impulse, which never
gets beyond the subjective stage, dies
before birth; and all those PHILOSOPHERS
which urge abstinence from action
would cut the plant of life at the root,
they are, in the last analysis, pleas for
suicide. Men really live only as they
freely express themselves through
thought, emot otion, and action. They get
at the deepest truth, and enter into the
deepest relationships only as they act.
Inaction involves something more than
| the disease and decay of certain facul-
| ties; it involves the defornlity of arrest
| ed development and failure to enter into
that larger world of truth which is
| open to those races alone which live
whole life. 1t is for this reason that
| the drama must always hold the first
place among those forms which the art
| of literature has perfected; it is for
| this reason that Homer, Dante. Shake
Speare and Goethe, consciously or un-
| consciously, chose those forms of ex
| preston which are specially adapted
| to represent and illustrate life in action;
| it is for this reason, among others, that
these writers must always play so great
| a part in the work of educating the
race. Culture is, above all things, real
and vital; knowledge may deal with alb
stractionS and unrelated bits of fact
but culture must always fasten upon
those things which are significant in
spiritual order"
Professor Goldwin Smith is most
charming writer when he discusses eco
nomics or education observes the
| Standard" Bapt) of Chicago, "but
when he ventures into the field of re-
Egious discussion he shows himself ig-
norant Of the progress of theological
thought and Biblical criticism rash In
| the statement of scientific objections to
religion, and misleading in his logic
He announces, in recent article on i'm
mortality, that soul and body, we now
konw, are tndivisible from each other
| mans nature being one enfolded at
first in the same embryo advancing in
all its parts and aspects through the
same stages to maturity, and succumb-
ing at last to the same decay Just how
Professor Smith discovered this i'm
portant fact he does not tell us. Ger
tainly not from scientific Investigations,
for when or in what manner has the
soul been scientifically studied and ana
lyzed? What the distinguished scholar
means to say is: We now know a good
deal about the body by methods Of
physical analysis; we have learned
nothing at all about the soul by such
methods; therefore we conclude that
body and soul share the same destiny.
Reduced to this form, the absurdity Of
his argument needs no comment"