Arizona republican., 1901-06-01
PRIDE OF PHOENIX
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aH Continued From First Page.) twenty-five knees, every man, every faculty of every man, all working with each other. and toward one aim; that is foot ball"
 When, however, the last and best word has bsen uttered in praise of a perfect. Physical man. neither this age. nor any succeeding one, will put a crown of glory upon the head of him whose highest distinction Is the posses sion of superior bodily beauty ani strength. champion athlete in whom a great mind and pure soul do not abids, cannot make a valuable fering to the progress of civilization.
 Nor will our time measure individual greatness and power by ones mone- tary strength. Money is mighty power In no other age of the world has its power been so coveted or so dominant. The ambition to amass a fortune for the sake of making a right and beneficent use of 1t is a laudable one. Money not only represents the means of subsistence. but it has the
 
 realities Columbus may guess at a new world, but only Isabellas jewels can enable him to find it.
 But it so happens that the best things of life, such as health, friend ship. love. virtue. happiness and hope. are not articles of merchandise, or conditioned by one financial. strength. Lord Bacon. who was prince of mod ern philosophers, says emphatically: T cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue, for as the baggage is to an army. so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind. but it hindereth the march. Ysa, and the care of it sometimes loseth or dis turbeth the victory"
 Nor will our age be content to give Its highest honors to those whose chief distinction lies in their intellectual at tainments. Knowledge is power, and understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it. are sacred say ings. But the highest culture of the mind may be attended by an increasing loss of power to compre nend ihe nob- lest ideals of life. or to express a sen- timent that will contain a true picture or impuse of the best civilization. For instance, who knew more of chemis- try than Prof. Webster, who commit ted in his own laboratory the highest crime known to the law. What is there in the mere knowledge of solids and liquids. of stars and planets, of langu- ages, living or dead, of history or phil osophy, that can make a vicious man into virtuous Ons?
 He prostrates intellectual power to ignoble ends. who does not make the highest wel-being of humanity the aim of all philosophy and poetry. the inspiration of hymn and prayer, the foundation under school and sanctuary. the reason of learning and genius and the goal of loves great and constant sacrifice.
 The true measurement of individual greatness and power is therefore mere than physical, financial or intellectual. The highest excellence and worth to which one may aspire consists of moral purpose and power. The term charac- ter expresses and includes the whole idea. When Horace Greeley was dy- ing he said, "Fams is a vapor, pop , ularity an accident; riches take wings; only one thing endures. and that is character" These words make good- ness the source and crown of mans supremacy. Society adnires the ath- lete, the scholar and ths financier, but society reveres and loves those whose qualities of heart are superior to those of body or brain. Prince Bismarck once said of the average native Parisian. That if you tak5 away his tailor. his hair-dress T I and his cook. what is left Is Red h. dian. But in 179S when our country was facing the possibility of war with France, the president wrote to Wash i ington at Mt. Vernon, "We must have your name, 1t Will be of more value to us than a standing army" Of that noble Greek who governed his city by unwritten laws. the people said "Phocion's character is more than the constitution"
 This is the ideal and goal of great ness and power to which I have been endeavoring to lead your thought and sympathy We should count ourselves happy to live in an age in which the virtues and influences of the heart are beginning to color our civilization. Be not in haste then. my young friends to do some wonderful deed, however gracious or beneficent it may be. The first supreme passion of your heart should be that you may abound in grace, wisdom and strength.
 The second great law which is oper- ating in and affecting society is the law of self-sacrifice and social service He who has learned most perfectly the lesson of self-love and self-snrichmeni should practice most diligently the i habit of social service. If he will not use his powers he cannot keep them Unemployed strength steadily dimin- ishes. likeness is followed by weak ness.
 It has been said that all our socia reform movements are largely the in | fuence of John Ruskin. He was surely a favorite son of fortune. being nc' only the heir of great wealth, but also of great genius. At the early age oi l twenty-one his famous book made hi: name a household word. The great ant the rich vied with each other to do hin honor. But as he looked out upon tho over worked, sorrowful and shabby shop-men and shop-women in London that great city appeared to him z vsritable prison house or hospital ant he resolved to become the night erran