The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01

company. What reflections upon our
selves these youths weary of life force
US To makei What announcements are
craven on their browSt
These shadows say 10 US by contrast
that happiness lies in a life true. ac-
tive. spontaneous, ungalied By the yoke
OF the passions, of unna turaI needs. Of
unhealthy stimulus; keeping intact
the physical faculty of enjoying
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breathe. and in the heart, the capacity
10 thrill witE the love of all that is
generous, simple and fine.
HE artificial life ensenders
Il artificial thought. and a speech
little sure OF itself. Normal habits
deep Impressions. the ordinary contact
with reality, bring fran5ness with
them FalSehood is the vice of a
slave. the refuge of the cowardiy and
weak. He who is free and strong is
urflinching in speech. We should en-
courage in our children the hardfbood
to speak frankly. What do we ordin-
arily do? We tT1mple on natural dis
position, level it down to the unifOr-
nifty which for the crowd is Synonv-
NOUS with good form To think with
ones own mind, feel with ones own
heart, express ones own personality
how unconventional, how rusticl-Obt
the atrocity of, an education which
consists in the perpetual muzzIing of
the only thing that gives any of US his
reason Tor being, of how many soul
murders do We become guilty. Some
are struck down with bludgeous. 9th
ers gently smothered with pillows,
Every thing cOnspireS against indie
pendence Of character. When we. are
little. people wish us 10 be dolls or
craven images; when We grow up they
approve OF US on condition that we are
llke all the rest Of the wOTld-automa-
tons;' when you have seen one Of then,
youV seen them all So the lack Of
originality and Initiative is upon US
and plautUde and monotony are the
distinctions of today Truth can free
US from TINS bondage: let our children
De taught 10 be themselves to rine.
clear without crack or muHie. Make
loyalty need to them. and I'm their
SraVest failures, if only they acknowl-
edge them, account it for merit that
they have not covered their sin
TO franknesS let US add ingenious
ness, IN our Solicitude as educators
Let US have for this comrade of child
hOod-a trifie unCiviliZed il is true. but
so gracious and friendIyI-aII possible
regard We must not brighten it away:
! when II has once fed, it SO rarely
/ comes back! righteousness is not sim
/ ply the sister Of truth, the guardian of
the individual qualities of each of US:
II rs besides d great informing and
educating force. 1 see among US too
many practical people, so called who
go about armed with terrifying specta-
cleS and huge shears 10 ferret ont
naive things and clip their wings. They
uproot nervousness from life from
| thought. from education, and pursue il
even to the region of dreams, Under
pretext of making men of their chill
| dren, they prevent their being children
at alias If before the ripe fruit of
autumn, flowers did not have to be and
perfumes, and songs of birds, and all
the fairy springtime.5
l ask indulgence for everything naive
and simple. not alone for the innocent
cCnceitS that fiutter round the cruly
| heads Of children, but also for the Ie-
gend, the folk song, the tales of the
world of marvel and mystery The
sense of the marvellous is in the child
the first form OF that sense of the in
finite without which a man is like a
bird deprived of wings. Let us not
wean the child from it. but let US
guard in him the faculty of rising
| above what is earthly, so that he may
appreciate later on those pure and
moving symbols of vanished ages
wherein humaE truth has found forms
of expression that our arid logic Will
never replace.