The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-07

/
characters on the face of the planets
also The real creators and eternal
prOprietorS of England are all the men
that have ever cut thistle or drained
puddle out of England What Car
lyle said of England is even more
true of the masses if possible. For We
cannot realize the greatness of the
pioneers of America until we imagine
America less than three hundred years
ago a wilderness continent possessed
by wild beasts and savage Indians with
scarcely q cree cut or ditch dug or a
furrow run in the development of this
country and compare that America
with the America of today.
THAT same process is going on in
South Africa, Australia and some of
the islands of the Pacific. That same
dumb Englishman that couldn't write
mis- epic but worked it out on the face
of England is continuing that same
epic in far away Australia, South
Africa. where nothing native prevails
except sdVagery and superstition.
'In the same way the people that
are turning the world from savagery
to civilization will turn it from super
stitution and ignorance to education
and enlightment. If the Uorld is ever
educated it will not be done alone or
chiefly by the few great educators,
nor the leaders of educational cam
paigns, but will be done by that lar
ger army of undistinguished workers,
the teachers of primary and secondary
schools.
Then let the present generation
realize that work is great and honor
able though humble and that the man
who digs in the mine, or the man that
assist in laying some railroad, or the
man shat teaches a public school in
some rural district is doing humanity
q splendid service which becomes
part of that divine process in human
progress; nor let US think it a disgrace
to ioin that sacred band of workers.
the celestial bodyguard of empire or
mankind, for genuine work alone is
eternal as the Almighty founder ana
World builder himself.
Mr.. O. d. Hinson, of Monroe, had
as his subject, '"The National Point
of View" He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
with the planting of the first two
settlements in America, were planted
two entirely different systems of
thought For time those two sys-
TENS of thought had vast scope and
creating space, but finally, there arose
a conflict of opinion which involved
our entire social, political and indus
trial system The North held that We
al
Confederation of States. The North
has misunderstood the South; the
South has misunderstood the North
The Southerner has come to regard the
North as being responsible for an I'M
reasonable puritanism and abolition
a,sm.
"A now North has arisen out of the
old, the North of Emerson, Powell
and Brooks. This new life has arisen
g NtYff n nY1f
of the intense local pride of the Old
North Upon that life Horace Mann
built his educational system, sys-
tenn similar to that in the South today.
With the development of the public
spirit, and the educational system
came the freedom of the mind,
through Emerson as the prophet of a
larger style of thought. quickening
the New England thought with a more
pungent phrase-and though morel
than two-thirds of a century behind.
the South has caught the atmosphere
of that intellectual freedom and isl
beginning to breath more freely. But, !
it was Emerson who infused the slug
gard intellect with a life that enabled
it to look out from it's iron lids, and
to fill the postponed expectations OIL
the world with something better than
the mere eXertions of mechanical skill. |
premiership was drawing to a close
as scholars and poets were arising to
sing our songs. Bryant with an un-
faltering trust in that power that is
able to guide Alright, in a way thatI
man must sometimes tread alone, he
confidently fixed his gaze upon the
future. Longfellow, in mis- sublime |
simplicity, has spoken to the heart of
nearly every American school boy and
girl, teaching them that life is real
and earnest. Lowell, in his poetry, |
has expressed the deepest longings of
the nation for its existence Through |
that new literature the eloquent SEN
tence of Webster for the national |
union, and for the national spirit |
rang out loud and clear.
such a life ought to be suggestive |
of the life Of the South today, and |
to kindle in us impulses akin to those |
attributed to the New North by Ham |
ilton Wright Mable. He says in |
speaking of the changed Northern |
sentiment: They feel the air of a new
age, they live in the light of nobler
conception of what is and must be |
the work of the nation in the spiritual |
life of the world. They discard sec |
tional valuations of political ideals |
scholarly standards of literary achieve |
ments. They ask no immunity from
the most searching criticism so long /
as it is just Their allegiance must
be to the truth. They are Americans
to the heartscore, and they mean to
be citizens of that community of the
nations fast organizing itself as the
ultimate unit of society. On this |
common ground the New North and