The sun., 1901-11-24
The Society for the study Of Life.

Ii has become one Of the chief duties
| OF men and women to belong to societies
! for the study of this and that. In the
| multiplication Of societies and the sub
| division Of studies much time is lost.
! The mind is perplexed by the number
Of subjects the stomach is oppressed
| by the number and variety Of dinners,
! for really fruitful discussion of great
themes or small seems impossible with
out the aid of dinner. Fortunately
there is in this town n society whose
comprehensive aims include everything,
al! .he movable and the unknowable.
II is called the Society for the Study OF
Life and seems to supersede and make
superlluous most or all other societies.
1t ate it's annual banquet the other
night and then presented few studies
Of life. The President OF the society
explained that its purpose is "reverently
to study life, with the purpose of ame-
iorating conditions and perfecting indi-
vidlnl lives A broad and generous
purpose.
When there is any ameliorating OF
conditions in view, Mr.. Edwin MARK
HAM. a poet OF humanity and Brooklyn,
is pretty sure to be called upon. He
told What there j. in America for
the Poet" We are far from wishing
to look gift horse in the mouth but
il would have been very instructive to
hear what there is in the poet for Amer
ica. But Mr. MARKHAM did his task
cNCcliently. As a poet who is worth
while he asserted that "the poet who
il worth while il one who has some
thing to do with the larger movements
Of humanity-a prophet and seer"
Having thus showed HOMER and SHAKES
PRARE out of the poets field. Mr.. MARK
HAM demanded "a new ideal for the
poetic and literary life He found in
the social and industrial movement
Of the present time "a higher theme
than the poets have vet dealt with"
In fact. America has been reserved
TO these latter years for some Great
manifestation" We are inclined 10
agree with this view and 20 hold that
Mr. MARKHAM and his poems are th?t
lorg-awaited manifestation But he
IL too modest 10 agree with us The
solving Of the problem OF oauital and
lahor Is the business and viii be the
result of American democracy. Scers
and prophets must see and pruphesy
alor that line The old book Of poetry
II slut The new one - open, I'VE
have closed the study of kings and
taken up the study of man The old
epic was - aims and the man. bu' the
now epic will be oi tools and the man
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HAN s"c- Il; he may wa.e away the
uri~tuUaiic and frudal poets. but " u
much too early for even an industrial
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