The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-08

the thoughts. the feelings and the ideas
Of humanity.
ones hold upon the English tongue
is measured by his choice of words and
by his use of idiom. The composite
character of modern English offers a
wide field for apt and happy choice of
expression The educated man. al
home with his mother-tongUe, moves
easily about in it's Saxon, Roman and
Latin elements and has gained by
long experience and wide reading a
knowledge of the mental incidence OF
words as well as of their artistic ef-
feet. He is hampered by no set formulas
but manifests in his speech, spoken
and written, the characteristic powers
and appreciation OF his nature
The educated man is of necessity,
therefore, d constant reader of the best
written English. He reads not for con-
sciOus imitation, but for unconscious
absorption and reflection. He knows the
wide distinction between correct Eng
lish on the one hand and pedanuc, or as
/ it is sometimes called, elegant" Eng
liSh. on the other He is more likely TO
go TO bed" than to retire TO get
up than to arise" to have legs
rather than climbs" TO dress than
to "clothe himself" and to make a
speech" rather than to deliver an ora
ton"
He knows that 'ff you hear poor
| English and read poor English, you viii
pretty surely speak poor English and
write poor English" and governs him
/ self accordingly. He realizes the power
and place of idiOm and its relation TO
/ grammar. and shows his skill by pre-
serving a balance between the two in
/ his style. He would follow with intel
ligent sympathy the scholarly discus
/ sions Of idiOm and of grammar by Pro-
! fessOr Earle and would md therein the
/ justification Of much of MS best prac-
/ tice. In short. in his use of his moth
er tongue he would give sure evidence
| of an education.
As a second evidence Of an education
I name those refined and gentle man
ers which are the expression of fixed
habits of thought and of action Man
ners are behavior and good breeding,
as Addison said, but they are more. II
is not without significance that the
Latin language had but a single wore
! CmOres) both for usages, habits man
ners, and for morals. Real manners
the manners of a truly educated mar
or woman, are an outward expression
of intellectual and moral conviction
Sham manners are a veneer which fall
away at the dampening touch of tn
first selfish suggestion.
Manners have d moral significance
and find their basis in the true ant
deepest self-respect which is built upol
respect for others. An infauible ties
. of character is to be found i'm one
manners toward those whom, for on
reason or another, the world may deem
his interiors. A mans manners to
r ward his equals or his superiors ar
shaped by too many moJ1ces to rende
b their Interpretation either easy or Ger
] tain Manners do not make the man
but manners reveal the man.
It is by the amount of respect, defer
ence, and courtesy shown to huma
. personality as such that we judg
whether one is on dress parade o
{ whether he is so we'll trained, well edu
Gated and so habitually ethical i
{ thought and action that he realizes hi
S proper relation TO his fellows and re
S Veals his realization in his manners.
As Kant insisted, more than a cen
p tUry ago, a man exists as an end /
S himself, and not merely as a means [
r be arbitrarily used by this or that will
+ and in all his actions. whether the
+. / concern himself alone or other raticns
{ beings, he must always be regarde
] as an end. True manners are base