The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-05-31

IT of no one take it rs my meaning that
> school Of high learning could fulhl us
p,i..inn hv substituting Bible classes. for
;ns,,rrc in place of tough and coplous
.IriII in human discipline. Nothing OF the
Kind Put bellows in those intellectual
t;rou mi blow with Ill the winds from
the cuyerns of .Aeolus: the flame and heat
Will lo none too great. But still, let Us
never applv the sacred name education
IN !, conception made up of intellectual
elements alone
After discussing defective conceptions
Of ethical projection. DR.. Andrews sald:
..Th.re i what | have named the 'Ema-
ciated Christian idea of our ethical prom
lem which represents virtue as lnVolV-
inr only those c~xcellencics in which Jesus
Christ dvelt and insisted, ignoring and
desnisinr those which had already lone
90 much TO relieve the darkness OF the
heathcn world. Such cannot have been
the teaching of the great Nazarlne.
The third count against current hlSn-
or pducation was declared TO ne lliat II
finds no means to correct III Its reclplehtS
those vicious thoughts Of man ethlcal
tast. assuring Il WY and stuntcd
growth even to the most vigorous ana
promising moral plants in the whole vast
circle WHICH IL cuitIN aus.
Nearly all our best schools of learning
in America were avowedly erected IN
the special interest of the Christian reli-
cion. and it was thought safe to assign
to the regular curriculum Il purely III
tellectual function. That plan has shown
itself TO be vitality unsafe. Education
| and moral influence must be ingralned III
| each other. The dye Of moral culture
must be III the very wool of educatlonal
Influence. \ few precepS suggesting III
what WAYS the moral ingredients should
| be Introduced into our higher education
We're given:
/. DO not seek the desired improve
ment by arbitrary emphasis on religious
dogmaS. be they important or unllnport-
ant. | II ultimate analysis. religion ana
ethics cannot be Sundcred: practically,
to q; very great extent, they can be.
Dogma has its place, but it is no fit pro
, pacdeutic to training i'll ethical right
ness
>. Purify and eXalt your idea of edu-
cation. Stock it with ethical elements.
Count it not enough to train the mind;
insist that the whole man be cultivated.
;. "ENcmplify this idea III yourself.
Niebuhr says the Emperor Hadrian bad
and sinful habits left him when he gazed
OH MARC -AiIcIliS ; ldt'. Nv - h"S
SO hc-that an officially negative young
person will be slain with remorse and
made alive again With moral aspiration
by Your very presence
t. "Rectify methods. 50 far and fast
as possible
>. Put large characters in teachers
chairs. learned men and specialists. who
are vet too great morally to be merely
learned men and specialists. If we can
not find such. we must grow them.
Place al Arnold Of Rugby, an Eliphalct
Mott. a Francis Wayland. or Il Mark
Hopkins i'll each teaching position
throughout the land. and how soon should
we not find ourselves upon that high path
of Il virtuouS and noble education OF
which Milton in his t~ractate speaks, and
how soon would not education become
what it ought to be. Gods ~almighticSt or
gan and engine i'll creating above us,
around us and within, that new heaven
and new earth where dWclleth righteous
ness.
Concluding. nr. Andrews said:
MANY Of my hearers are young edu
Gated men about to begin in earnest the
work Of life: and most Of these will b,
more or less Intimately connected Will
the cause of education. What ! have
spoken in your ears to-day. that proclaim
VI on The housetopS.
.Still thou playeSt. short vacation
Fate grants each to stand aside.
Now must thou be man and artist,
'Tis the turning of the tide
have thus tried to give to the readcl
= fairly full outline of 4: very Learned
address. 1t was 50 compact, s.
..mcaty" and so perfect that nOthln:
short of the full paper would do thu
sneaker Justice. Ills consent to thl
could not be obtained, and the abOv'
summary and extracts are presented II
he hone that they will be as stimulat
I'M, TO the reader rs they proved to al