The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-14
ENHANCEMENT
DAY AT SHAW
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labor that only does the coarser things:
there is small class of men who work
on the plane of angels.
1t is we'll TO remind young men going
out from college of some of the just
claims which tie world has against
them, and to emphasize their obliga-
lions to pay these just debts. The
world has less tendency today to make
pets Of men than it had century ago.
You may therefore group what I shall
nave to say on this occasion under the
general heading Some Things Ex
pected of the Educated Man"
The educated man, in the sense of hui
man limitations, must be a creator. 1t
may rot be his to make something of
nothing, but he must be able to take
hold of something that is, and put it in
higher FORM and fit it for a higher
srevice. He must take old conditions
and put into them new vigor, destroy
their hindrances, and out of them pro-
duce conditions from which may spring
larger and better men. Education is an
increase of personal power that gives
the man master over circumstances
The educated man is the last man whose
failures can be explained on the
grounds of untoward circumstances.
The world must get its progress frCm
that order of men who can break con-
ditions and rise in spite of them Abra-
ham broke the chains of Chaldean SUI
perstitiOn, and inaugurated circumstan-
ces out of which the world has got a
better civilization. Tyndall broke the
conditions of ecclesiastioism in England
and unclaimed the Bible from apars
and put it in the hands of every plow-
boy. Cromwell rose in the face of So
cial, political and religious traditions
and made freedom a surety. The SUI
preme conflict in human history has
been, and always will be, waged be-
tween the high order of personal power
and material environments. Men are
men only as they can make rue in their
history the teachings of David's lyric,
Thou hast given him dominion over
all things
There is a class of timid men largely
made up OF so-called educated men, who
fret against limitations and who seek to
create the. impression that the world is
= becoming too crowded to furnish oppor-
tunties for bread winning 1t is a shame
that such voice should break from
finds this age much against him; it
is wen that the coward finds life hard;
il is well that ignorance finds itself at
great disadvantage; it is we'll that dis
honesty goes without employment, and
it is well that extravagant luxury rap
idly brings bankruptcy Such retril>u-
lions are GOd-sent; but there never was
a time when real man full of BRAY
cry, energy, wisdom, plan, and sincerity,
had more inspiration for the eXpendi-
tIre of himself than he finds in this
wCrl1 today The world was never so
full OF chances as it is today, and every
time a genuine man comes on the scene
chances become opportunities, and a new
day daWns
The educated man must be teacher
of SOUND politics, sound social doctrines,
and sound religious faiths. The quality
Of sOberness is an essential mark of a
sound education. Social, political, and
religious rashness has wrought in the
earth incalculable hurt. Men follow
PASSIONS instead of ideas, and cultivate
a spirit of hatred and suspicion instead
Cf a spirit of truth-loving. Such calami-
ties must follow an unframed and an
unregulated mind, and wherever igno-
rance abounds rashness is easy.
The sober minded man is the source
of progress and perfection. Perfection
il not distortion, nor is it the product
OF disorder Perfection and progress are
the logical conclusions of truth and fidel-
ity. Distorted truth is as hurtful as open
error. There was a bit of truth in Gre
elan mythology, there is bit of truth
liz the religions and PHILOSOPHERS of the
Orient; but it is truth distorted de-
formed and incompetent, and it's end must
be degradation.
One of the forms of modern reckless
ness against which the educated man
must labor is that which emphasizes one
idea to the exclusion of all other ideas.
Truth is four-square. and one wall can
never make a whole building. Segregated
society is imperfect society. To lay SUI
pTeme Importance upon one division of
labor, and minify another division of it, is
so ultimately wreck all industry. A single
man does not make q world, and a sin
gle laborer does not make an industry.
Economy is over-refined in it's distri-
button and false to the real fact, when it
draws an independent difference between
Iabor and capital. That may be fine the
DRY. and have it's Philosophical value, but
the fact is that the capitalist is laborer
organization of capital against labor, or
labor against capital, is to inspire men
10 organize against themselves. 1t is
The insanity of modern economy that
emphasizes the difference between men
instead of emphasizing the dependen-
cics of men upon each other
Live at home" is a very common ex-
sortation, but it is a very selfish and
impossible one. The world is not con-
stituted on the idea of segregation, but
on the idea OF universal brotherhood
and men who are not akin in their tolls
cannot be akin in their joys. Men must
meet in rough rugged nature, before
fIcy can meet in refined and holy
epirit They must learn to work in a
weld, not in a neighborhood; to live in
a world not in a community. There is
40 worse type of social rashness than
shat which drives man back into him
self stirs in him the passions of self
love. awakens in him jealousies all out
side of himself, and laboTs that only
he nay reap the products of his toll
There is a class of economic teachers
who credit the creation of all wealth