The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-06

oAAo4tlOL OF energy cldrdcleEiZeS I1e
pleasure lover is expended in the line OF
gratifica midnight .feasts at a hun
cred dollars plate. equipages, rivalirg in
gar1sh splendor the barbaric displays Of
Indian rajahs, are his ambition.
I'VE have sometimes heard about the
curse Of hard luck. AS children we IN
| derstood the Genesis account of the first
human transgressdon and the original Of
all penalty for wrong doing, as implying
that Adams first essay in agriculture was
simply serving time as a convict; and
| consequently farming and all other forms
fof hard work. especially Of the manua!
KIND, remain to this day as reminders that
we are sinners and living under the Di-
vine curse.
'But most Of US have advanced far
enough from the period of marbles and
spinning tops to understand that work.
productive work, is not mans curse but is
mans best friend. The idle man, the man
| who finds no useful labor to do, is the
man VINO merits our oomm:serat.on, and
not the worker who finds SO many tasks
awaiting his busy hands that he scarce
can get time 10 eat or sleep.
II have lately read a remarkable book,
with remarkable title, written by
remarkable man.
The author is a contemporary French
savant, one of the Tmmortals' of the
| Academy 1 believe. The title of the book
is 'Anglo-Saxon Superiority: 10 What is
1t Due?"
1.-The author assumes. as a fact evident
! to every observer, that the Anglo-Saxon
race, as represented in Great Britain and
| ha mi -,
| modern world, in respect to all the es-
/ senual elements of civilization, education
| and general Intelligence, individual and
/ social thrift and happiness. industrial
| skill and achievement wide and prosper
Gus commercial expansion, and potential
military proves. Not only is the Saxon
thus leading the vanguard of the worlds
progress at the present moment, but all
| signs indicate that this leadership is per-
manent for an indefinite future.
This acute observer and student of So
ciety finds the chief causes of this Anglo
Saxon superiority to be the predominant
spirit of individualism which has charac-
terized the Saxon from the days of the
Roman historian Tacitus down to the
present, in all his removals and under
every sky; his capacity and determina-
ton to take care of himself; his inherited
power of self-:nitiati;e and his facility
for change and even reversal Of direction
and method in business and statesman
ship, when he finds that a given plan or
measure OF course fails him; his superior
capacity for hard work; his better meth
DDS Of education.
HE tells us that the medieval Saxons
SIIh5upd tho anoiarf T1ritorc booar,Sa +bax-
outworked the Britons. In like manner
modern Saxons subdue the barbaric races
of India, Africa, America and the isles of
the seas because of the same habit of in
domitable work.
THE Anglo-Saxon method Of training
the young is superior because IT is prac-
teal and aims to secure practical results;
because it prepares the young man to
take care of himself, to be self-reliant and
Independent, rather than as in France,
Germany and elsewhere to depend upon
society, the state, the clan, the family or
the commune to help him forward to sue !
cess.
And NJ Demolins finds the most COM
plete vindicatpn and illustration of his |
main contention in the career of our own |
America, where, he says, the Saxon has |
annihilated the millions of Celts that have |
hitherto fiocked to our shores, and has |
already so far submerged the larger mill |
ions of Teutons, Scandinavians, Italians I
and the rest that the foreign vernacular
is forS1tten by the second generation and |
newspapers and church services in other
languages than the English can be kept
only by the continual influx of adult i'm
migration.
81 have quoted thus at length from this
distinguished writer because his opinions
are freighted with valuable counsel for us
as Americans and because they fit in well
with the subject of our meditations this
morning.
The present nineteenth century mas
been. par eminence, the era of work and
workers. Unless all signs fail the TWEEN
teth century VIII vastly surpass the nine
teenth in these CHARACTERISTICS The indus
trial prbgress and commercial expansion
or the present day, however stupendous
and dazzling they may seem to our near
by vision, are but the simple beginning CT
the transcendent trfumphs of industry
and trade which the young man of today
if living at the middle of the twentieth
century, will surely witness.
1.-THE spirit of individual:sm. incarnated
in the predominant Saxon race. has tri-
umphed in the worlds proudest march Of
progress thus far; it is unlikely that the
triumphS of individual efforts are now to
cease and the world revert to the sway
IF tht cOmmun:stic spirit, industrial activ-
ty and ownership of property Of the COM
munity. dependence of the individual on
association or the state unless human
progress is to be arrested. For why turn
back TO a form of society which has
failed? Which has climaxed
n the dead nations of China, India and
Asia generally? Which IS the prime cause
If the slow dissolution which we now see
in, the Latin nations OF south
I'm Europe?
Among the pedagogical lessons for us
% catch from this subjeC< and apply in
our educational plan are these:
Since the genius Of the race and our. no
itical institutions demands Of the individ-
1aI self reliance, self support and an :
lager and tireIess working out of his own |
emporal salvation, our education and |.
raining Of the young must be practical.
more practical, specially adapted TO ht
he young man and young woman for
Our young people should be educated
,hiefiy at home. The character which
'haH TT the young man FOR useful Amer
can citizenship can be formed only in
n American home ard in American
,chools
The parent who educates son or dauga-
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