The record-union., 1899-09-17
Manhood.

Lord Rosebery on July 18th delivered
an address before the students of Ep-
som College on Manhood" in which he
said:
There is one platitude which people
are apt to forget, though it is a plati-
tude, that everybody. if he lives, must
inevitably become a man. 1t is often
forgotten, and yet the fact is absolutely
certain. that it is on our men that we
depend for the future of our country.
Now, some of the nations owe almost
everything to their schools. Scotland,
Switzerland and Prussia do, I believe.
owe to their schools that place they
hold in the race of the world. In Eng
land / hope we are not ungrateful il
we say that as regards the old schools,
despite our adherence to the studies Of
classics and mathematics. 1 do not feel
sure that We have been so successful
in turning out men with an exact edu-
cation fitted to enabling them to meet
the difficulties and competition of life
/ have no doubt in EPSON College it is
different, but it used not always to be
so. But at any rate we are sure of this
that in England our schools have
turned out men. (Hear. hear.) They
have been the best schools of manhood
the world has ever seen. and if they
have succeeded in that for one put all
the studies of the science and classics
and mathematics in a secondary posi-.
ton. (Hear, hear.) You know that we
in this country have always paid spe-
cial worship to that virtue of manhood
which DR.. Probert so justly described
We worship it not merely in our own
but in other nations When we get to
know man anywhere, a man who
stands out for the qualities. of manhood
beyond his fellows. we admire and we
honor that man, and we don't care what
country he belongs to. / will give you
an instance of a man whose name may
/ be familiar to most Of you: I mean
Captain Marchand
| He is a Frenchman, and not long
ago accomplished a three years journey
| across Africa from west to east amid
| incredible hardship, with scarcely any
companionship of his own nation, sur
rounded and followed by the savages
| whom he made devoted to him, and he
succeeded in that enterprise in a man
ner which will always crown his name
with glory (Hear. hear)-and what is
task he bore himself with such dignity
and such modesty that he is one of the
men that England delights to honor.
| (Cheers.) Last year. as some of you
know, his duties placed him in momen-
tary collision with the interests of Eng
land; but I am convinced of this, that.
| in spite of that passing incident if
Captain Marchand were to come to
England he would get a reception sec,
ond only to that which he has had in
his own country. (Hear hear) And
it has always been SO in England The
greatest receptions given in London in
the last half-century have been to men
who have been foreigners / saw the
enthusiasm in honor of Kossuth, OF
whom I dare say very few of YOU have
ever heard, but England saw in him a
man, and their heart leaped out TO him
AS a child I remember the flags and
decorations which welcomed him. Then
the other was the reception given to
Garibaldi. Garibaldi was received with
such honor as no one except the Prime
ess of Wales on her arrival ever re.
ceived in London. (Cheers) Why was
it? Because be was a man. Because
people saw that he had the qualities of
man; not merely courage and integ-
rity, but he was no self seeker, he had
no personal interests to gain, and he
laid down the claim he might have had
and the millions he might have re-
ceived as if they were dross in their
comparison with his honor as man
(Cheers) Now in England we do not
honor those men because we can pro-
duce none like them. but it is because
in the training which our schools give
we have not merely formed men, but
have been enabled to appreciate man.
hood And do not think that you boys
here, even the youngest of you, need
fall short of the qualities of manhood
because you have not reached mans
estate.