Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-08-25


Not only does man have his physical
limitations and social limitations, but
also his mental limitations rs the
United States government first has Its
national legislature, aud then this ma
tional form of government Is subdivtd-
ed into states, and these states into
counties and these counties into town
ships, so | find the great human race
Is divided and subdividcd and again
rGlivido1 in reference to iis limitations.
And In no way can you trace these
limitations more than in the mental
makeup Of the Individual.
Educational Limitations.
Under the old educational system ev-
cry American college used 10 exact a
hidelOund course. The young man
who was a candidate for the r. A. de
gree had to take just 10 much OF mathe-
MATES, so much of languages, SO much
OF the sciences. ~ much of philosophy,
so much Of this and that and the other
thing. But now our college systems
have become broadcnetI. The elective
system" Is in vogue Great educational
leaders have come to the logical and
right conclusion that what Is meat for
one brain may be poison for another.
Charles sumner was one Of the great
cat men America ever produced bat it
was simply an impOssihihty for
Charles Sumner to Ernsp mathematics.
As "A result of this deficiency sumner,
one of the greatest cG al Massa-
chusctts' scholars. WIS unable 10 grad
uatc from Harvard college when my
father graduated from college Howard
Crosby. then n professor In the New
York university, declared he wns :ho
finest student o" bellies lettres' who
had ever studied within the walls Of
New York's great institution OF learn
ing. But. though my father was strong
in certain studies, he was very weak
In others Among his weaknesses was
his inability 10 grasp foreign tongue.
Far years b" wanted 10 20 forth. ms
did my Uncle John. ~ n missionary To
foreign lands He was however, de
tered from this purpose by The Oo him
almost insurmountablc difficulty OF be
coming proficient IN Il foreign Ian
guaEo.
Sometimes there is born n child, MS
was Edmund Clarence Stcdman. with n
brain or myriad possibilities As an
American poet he trcadI closely upon
the heels of our greatest poets. Yet
Stcdman the poet IS alSo Ste1lman the
Wall street banker, rs ne was also Sted-
man The famous war correspondent
But such minds rs Mat Of Edmund
Clarence Stpduan are the rare cNccp
lions. For the most part God gives 10
man but one first class talent AMI not
ten. The reason Theodore Parker be
came the great power he was in his day
was because, as he said Everything |
ever saw or did | ground Mp into the
mental Erist for my sermons. was
born Il preacher and can do nothing else
but preach" When l.. S. Grant drew
his sword as commander of the Amcri.
can armies. he carved out for himself
one OK the greatest names I'm American
history. but /. s. Grant made q failure
ut everything on earth ne ever attempt
cd except the vocation of a soldier
Many n soldier has been n failure as a
statesman; many statesman has
proved his utter incapacity when he
"'e'i u c"nii'''''u an army
Bc~cher md Ills Father.
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Aad To MN message. Lyman 'eechor
was nadc or angular PURITAN granite
llc Was III every SENSE l"g'lan ana a
p"'eIhlc Like J"hn 'alioun h9 Wa
sAilifui in argument. Grant his simple
premises. "nd you must sranj bis con
'luSl"n"' !ie appealed mostly 70 the
brain as gray matter and not to The ar
ustic continents.
II wa" er'at source OF sorrow -
Henry Ward R'ccheI that his father
never loved nature as he loved it,
Lyman Reecher loved to hunt. lie
loved the woods for game, bur not for
u" flowers u" mover loved flowers AZ
flowers Facts always had TO be pre-
scented to him as bare, unhrcakable
rocks, and not AS rocks clothed in gar