The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-12

tends the building up of the organism.
We most sincerely believe it, though
we as reluctantly avoid a dogmatic
formulation of our creeds. Whether
we accept Spencer's unknowable, or
the Christians theosophy, the essen
tial verify remains. The world has an
educator-the race of man has an
educator-the individual man has an
educator.
We are born for a. cultured progress,
and exactly to the extent Of our Wis
dom in the processes and methods OF
our development we are in the rhythm
of the divine embodiment of lie.
Supremacy. therefore, our highest
wisdom must be to catch the secret OF
the divine order of progress. In other
words we must be, in our aim and
methods too. in harmony with the
music and efficiency of universal 9rln-
ciDles. Since the world itself is full
of educational energy, bearing It's fruits
of Improvement in every department or
cosmis activity, we may be the more
absolutely assured that there IS uni
fed plan of operation. A one grand
order of march for the mind-life OF
man. as for the growth of worlds, or
as for the color and fragrance of the
flowers.
Physical resultants, whether in stars
or in daisies, are the outgrowths OF
absolute obedience to the laws Of
growth. and there is not, and cannot
be. a deviation from the same first
principles i'll the higher fruits or CIVIL
hzation.
The imperative claims of higher edu-
Alcsa4ion We. have recently settled in Utah
:, ~ and forever, and we are so far
Ii touch with and d part Of the very
genius of American culture, a thought
and fact of profound significance, for
49,, o,,l+r.rod of+fTa0Shiu n America Is
a factor. equally brilliant, effective and
benefcent in the worlds present hour,
q factor for human freedom and higher
progress which the worlds history
will keep bright and fragrant forever.
The very powers of earth and heaven
seem visibly to have taken their stand
on the side of the triune good of the
life. liberty and progress of humanity,
and that we in our present day are
privileged TO see the fruitiOn of the
pilerim seed-sowing. There is meas
urable distance, both in time and
space, between the MayfioWer and the
Olympia, but the intervening sequences
make a chain of history without a
single missing link. The boat on the
Nile bore the Hebrew savior, the May
flower carried an infant republic Of
higher freedom, and the victory IN the
Manila bay is not without historic
connection with the Hebrew statesman.
Though the points are Instant, lHey
are on the lines of movement out OF
darkness into light, out Of bondage
into freedom, and out OF wrong into
right.
The worlds best history is the his
tory of the education of the human
race. And the recent war of our own
hour is an object lesson to the nations
that the worlds great trend is onward
and forward to a redeemed humanity
and though Spanish or any other "ish''
or ism may throw the treacherous
brutality Of its national ignorance
across the pathway of cultured free
Eom, I gains no more than its merited
obstruction.
~ The value of a definite aim in
higher education. The learned Hum
bo'dt strikes 10 the core of the problem
when he says: The thing is not TO lei
our schools and universities go on in q
drowsy and impotent routine; the thing
is, to raise the culture Of the natioa
higher and higher by their means.
There is no greater good on earth to-
day than the dawn of the new concep-
ton both of the aim and office Of edu-
cation. 1t is the advent Of the science
Of education, a science pregnant with
the promise of a. better age-an age in
which man shall have a richer knowl-