The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-02
ULTURE Of
AMERICANS
President Schur.
man CriticiSeS
Its Quality.

ITHACA. y " june 2l-rr".Idsn
Sphurmau ul Cornell University Boo hn
address 20 the graduating class praisuD
American millionaire, who hold thou
wealth as stewards OF the people, MON
uouing Carnegie and Rockefeller. IT..
declared, however t..U save iu poll
tics and invention Au.rlnu was idi
behind .U. countries nI europe, us
pecially in The duu.Hu nU higher ca.
JuIe. President ayuuru.H -HIa iu part
Look at the gifts which Alr. Rookie
Teller and Mr.. Carnegie are making foI
churches, schools, colleges, universities
and libaries- gifts which assume the
proportions of millions of dollars for a
single object Mr.. Carnegie breaches
the gospel of wealth, which makes il a
disgrace for man to die rich, and. If
he lives long enough to carry out his
purposes, | doubt not his life will illus
trate his teaching.
THAT our richest men have come To
regard wealth as a trust which they
hold for the benefit of their fellow-men
may be regarded by the future his
torian of American civilization as the
most significant feature of our day.
The American habit of giving to col
leges and universities is one of the two
most encouraging features of our intel
lectual life. The other is the public
school, in which the children of the
people are freely educated at the eX-
pense of the people.
LACKING IN HIGHER CULTURE
Undoubtedly we may well be proud
of all the material agencies and instru
mentalities of our educational work.
Nay. the product, so far as general av-
erage is concerned is also subject for
congratulation.
THE indictment lies elsewhere. 1t is
that while in the industrial sphere we
have developed world leaders, in the in
tellectual we are content to be under
lings In art, in literature, in scholar
ship, in science, we are a long way be-
hind Europe.
Let me speak with the utmost frank
ness. Apart from the domain of poll
tics, invention and trade America has
not produced a single man or woman
whose name will shine in the intellec-
tural armament with Raphael. Shakes
peare, Copernicus. Newton, La Place.
Goethe and Darwin.
while we congratulate ourselves on
the prosperity of the nation, on the
beneficence of its rich men, on the null
utude OF our schools, colleges and uni
Verslties, ana the variety OF excellence
~ their appliances let us also recognize
the far less pleasing fact that in let
ters. science and philosophy we occupy
at the present time a position distinctly
inferior to that of European countries
and in all our history have no name to
compare with their greatest.
I'm all things material we are the
winning empire of the world; in things
OF intellect we sun i've on the bounty
yvbor questioned to,ioh+ ,oo,ord,,,o,
tho s+atamor+s IN bis CONNIE cement
odd,oss prosido,,+ cotu,,,,,, eta.
"It 10 rrdorhtedI,, tr,a tbo+ IN Avn,
arica tbsra have baer no frst-ciass
creative nrodmctions Of tba bnna,,
r,ird lilo tbose Of Darte sbalesnaare
Goethe and Darwin Americans have
baon con,naIIed 70 he contart With lit
nr,,,, rroductions Of tho second cIass
and Win daveIonipg to tba bigbast de-
grea the n,ecbanicaI or industrial arts
THO fact &c however that we arc ii,,-
inc on Eurona for tba host there is in /.
nnotrv ort i,teroture ana science ana /.
the Great DANCER is that we are ant to
ba content ia go on living on Eurone
and NEGLECT IN uea our own creative in
s+incts Therein lies the greatest dan
ger, The Chinese had the rudiments of
science centuries before Eurone,s ereat-
est renIuses rose. and gave them these
rudiments The chinese did NOT use