The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-02-03
AT EARLHAM TOMORROW
Evening at 8 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Kel-
ly Considers Him Emerson
Superior.

Prof. Royce, of Harvard Univer
sity will lecture tomorrow night at s
O'Clock at Lindley hall, Earlham.
There will be a large attendance to
hear the distinguished scholar.
President Kelly states that large
delegations besides the various clubs
in this city will come from neighbor-
inc towns. DR.. Royce says that many
people say that they are idealists, but
probably they would not say so, II
they understood just for what an
idealist stands To the idealist the
world is through and through an
ideal, a spiritual mystery. This
great order is once for all divine.
Idealism has taught us, namely, (D
by showing us that, except for the
world Of ideas, except for the phe
nomena that appear as outer TO be-
inss with minds, or that have their
place in the inner life of such beings,
there is no reality at all; (2) by
showing us, as Kant has shown, that
there can be no rational order In ma
ture unless the thought Of some ra-
tional being introduces such order,
and (3) by leading us to postulate,
as all the post-Kantian constructive
ideaIists have postulated, that be-
meath the nature of our conscious
self, which finds itself forced to rec
ognize this or that as outer, there
must lie a complete, an infinite self,
which somehow, whether by a divine
caprice or by a divine nationality, or
by both combined, is actually and of
its own nature not outwardly forced,
but inwardly minded to express it
self in this whole vast world of ours.
Prof. Royce says: "That until the
nineteenth century, or through the en-
tire romantic period Of philosophy,
idealism lived and thought, is world
of itself All science and historical
research had been excluded from this
spiritual world of ideals. But if we
as idealists return to the outer order,
it is because we desire our idealism
to remain no longer barren, abstract,
ali a11u VI "a lJtA ACIASCs Ntl ~ 1tlOU9s "a
ward, sentimental, or fantastic. We
want our idealism to do manly
work. We want it to enter upon its
true tasks, not Of dreaming of a
possible perfection, but Of trans
forming, or enlivening. of spiritualiz-
ing the concrete life of humanity. In
its most fantastic moments idealism,
unless it were perchance the roman
tic irony of some young Friedrich
Schlegel has been sincerely anxious
to embody, experience and get at the
truth Of life.
Science, on the other hand, in the
person and work of any earnest and
sensible investigator, however, narrow
his speciality, however unspiritual
seemed his facts, has been through
and through spiritual in its inmost
conception of reality. Divorced from
speculation, as it has usually choser
to be, it still has never lost sight o1
its task, namely, to elaborate the
facts of experience in such wise al
to find and to make apparent in then
the laws, the essential truths, th'
ideas of things.
The return to the outer order IL
our century has therefore in its pre-
supposltlon not been a return to tn.
old outer order of the seventeenth
century. 1t has been return to :
world pervaded, as it were, with tn,
spirit of idealism. Those who hav,
believed that the spirit of the age O
evolution removed ideals, removed
theology from the world, have. then
failed to see that the presuppositiol
Of our historical age, ever since Rous
seau and the romantic period. ha
been that history is worth stduvin.
for its own sake, and that, therefore
ideals are responsible for nature
mechanism.
"But just herein lies the deepes