The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-14

| new things for the good of man.: tor the
pulling Of man higher in ms strussIe
| toward the light from the dark ABYSS &c
which he had fallen, but 1t is also nee
esSary to send forth these thoughts 10
the world.
MUST GIVE EXPRESSION.
Now, if our education is OF the right
kind we"must.. not only seek the pest
method Of training the brain anu lllns
it with knowle; Se, but we must seek INC
best methods Of carrying the products OF
the brain to the world.
Our thoughts are carried to the outer
world mainly and almost exclusively by
the tongue and the hand. BY the tongue
we talk, we sing. Bat the talk. however,
beautiful. dies in the air and the song.
however, sweet, lives for moment ana
is dead
But by many ways and far more en-
during, the hand bears the inner thoughts
Of man out to his fellow man. IF these
thoughts be true, he sends them out III
consecratcd form to bless humanity. Inc
sculptor with a clisel in a well trained
hand reveals to the world, to be admi- ed
forever, the beautiful figure that his
brain evolves which, through the ages
has been hidden in the stone.
The painter with a brush and an eye
foIbeauty that 4 Raphael might envy,
car, with his own trained hand, throw
upon canvass an expression Of the living
images of his brain that will convey hap
piness and joy, and love and beauty to
thousands through countless ages. The
architect throws upon paper by trained
hand the picture of the buildings and the
monuments that are to be the wonders
of this world, While other trained hands
take the pictures expressed from the
brain of the architect and give us the
real thing in enduring substance for the
good Of man. .All this comes from the
brain that evolves it; the hand expresses
it and the skill manual work that
builds it.
But the hand : has no limit to
its conquests in the field Of express
ing human thoughts. Long ago it
took the words and the songs OF
men and permanently wrote them by pen
and press, and sent them all over TIE
world while skilled hands have flashed
them at lightning speed to every shore.
Just now, on the outer line Of human
knowledge and skill. the. mind and hand
in close combine without wire or cable
or visible means. have, by an unseen and
unknown medium, written messages
through mountains and across continents
and oceans. Not content with this
triumph the great Hand Express Trust
Company has entered AGAIN the limited do
mains Of the Tongue Express Company;
and has collected from the air the human
Voice and recorder it exactly as It is on
her waNcn tablets to be reproduced in
all Its original beauty in speech, In
oratory and song throughout the ages.
Oh. that we had had this earlier! What
would we give to catch once more the
love songs CT years ago, and hear again
the battle shout Of Lees .grea II arms.
Now ShOl1'I tb;, eS, Of f7,,, ~
different from what it was fifty years
ago? First because we should be seek
ing the best But mainly and especially
the demand for 4 Skilled hands is far
greater than It was fifty years ago.
NEW EPOCH :
Education has her epochs. 4 great
epoch came to her near the middle of
tho nineteenth century. 1t was far-reach-
ing, and, in a sense. revolutionary. 1t
might be called the epoch Of materialism.
But it's special significance was that ma
chinery began to do mans work This
epoch OF materia:iszn, notwithstanding
the many theories to the contrary brought
on our Civil War. 1t furnished ballots
and bullets for Lincoln's election and
soldiers, so that slavery might
go, that the North mgth sell her ma
chinery all over our Southland and bring
her skilled labor to run it: AS we failed 1
to head them off in their onslaught OF
ballots and bullets, let US do it now by
having Skilled hands of our own to build
our own machinery and to run it. too
The conserva tisnl OF our educators has
kept back that sort Of education that is
needed TO adjust ourselves to this new
epoch. But it is up to us to-day. Let us
meet it srandly. There came a great
leader with the coming of this
epoch in the worlds history. 1t was
Frederick Froebel, the great German edu-
Gator. The foundation OF his great work,
says his great apostle, Baroness Won
Bulow, can be formulated as
follows:
The regeneration Of man must COM
mence with the regeneration Of children.
The dominating egotism Of the present |
must be replaced by true public spirit and
an a!lembracing love; all labor must be |
more or less transformed into creative
ness (Schaffen) by unshackling the in I
ventive power. Creativeness lifts man up |
to the likeness of God and insures him
the greatest possible happiness on earth.
In the kindergarten egots1n
easily prevail. Sefdenial and I
So critices are voluntarily and without |
coercion brought by the spirit of love
nto a community whose very existence
demands self-control. The charm of I'M
surroundings and large
number Of playmates lead to proper be-
lavior."
Froebel died unknown in 1852. before
lis theories We're put to practice But |
ne said in dying "A truth cannot die"
He was right. There were:<siNteen kn7
lergartens in the world when he died.-
Now they encircle the globe. They are
come to America to stay. In 1873 there
we're 15s in America; in 1887 there We're
Iay- G II n
lalf 3. million.
WORK FOR FUTURE.
We must awake in Old Virginia. and
work for the future generation The men
# tomorrow are the boys Of to-day.