The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-06-10

full, its essence forever an unsolved
enigma. we nevertheless can know its
modes OF action. and the CHIEF aim OF
education is to make and keep these
modes OF action strong and free The
soul is known to me as that invisible
true self within NE which thinks and
feels and wills For purposes OF con-
vcnience We are therefore accustomed
to divide the indivisible and recognize
tn" three Soul-facultieS OF the intel
lcc: the Scnsibiities. and the will.
1t is the chief office ni the Christian
college to cultivate harmoniously this
;hrc"-iod spiritual man. 1t teaches
him 70 know Alright in order that he
may rightly iecl, to the end that his
righteous will may >traightway issue
in well balanced actions that serve the
highest welfare OF the world the
:r:'" college aims 70 produce a sane
and :vcnly balanced manhood. steady.
well poised. where head and heart
and will act in perfect unison oi
musical service. No other education
al truth is SO important as that we
must always be on guard against the
,over emphasis OF any one OF these
three faculties. or the neglect Of any
one OF them. for the result in either
case is sure to be a discordant cul
ture which means a deformed devel-
opment. an inharmonious character,
a manhood that falls below its posi-
bic maximum Of harmonious excel
lence
No less witness than Charles
Darwin gives startling testimony to
this all-important fact out Of his own
experience. In his latter life he bit
terly regretted that his purely scien-
tihc training had causd his sensibil-
tiles toward music and poetry. his
higher tastes. as he says, to become
':atrophied." up to the age of thir-
ty"-I quote from his life and letters
of many kinds gave me
great pleasure, and even as school
boy took intense delight in Shakes
peare. especially in the historical
plays. I have also said that formerly
pictures gave me considerable. and
music very great delight But now
for many years I cannot endure to
read line of poetry. I have tried
lately to read Shakespeare and found
it so intolerably dull that it nauseated
me. I have also almost lost my taste
for pictures or music. My mind seems
to have become kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large
collection of facts. The loss Of these
tastes is loss of happiness and may
possibly be injurious to the intellect.
and more probably to the mora! char
acter, by enfeebling the emotional
part of our nature" When too late
to draw personal proi; from the les
son. this great specialist in natural
law discovered thIt he himself had
violated the great law OF spiritual
harmony. and paid the penalty. It
is not that we have no need for s.irn-
tihc specialists. By all means let us
have all the specialized scholars we
can get. for only upon the basis OF 4
rigorous division Of labor can the rae.
make progress toward the acquire
ment of truth But a mans share
in the large full life of the world
should be so firmly and SO permanent
" secured for him that whether he
be preacher or scientist, farmer or
college professor. he should still be a
man ''for a that" with sensibiltes as
keen as his intellect. and sympathies
no less profound than his knowledge.
But there is danger equally great
on the side of the cultivation of the
emotions at the expense of the intel
lect and will. The annals, of poetry
and music. two noble arts which ap-
peal chiefly to the sensibilities for
response-are not those annals STAIN
ed on many an otherwise glorious
page with the emotional excesses OF
genius? Nor have the musicians and