The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-06-09


siders are aliens and foreigners, una.
BILE TO think its thoughts, to speak
It's languages or TO harmonic with its
traditions. 1t is even so in the social
word, our differences of tastes have
made thousands of warning ements
in our economy and we are building
a wall higher than that around China,
more impenetrable than the rocks that
beat back the waves at Gibraltar. &. ID
1T would seem that education would
escape this narrow tendency towards
specialization, but not so. Here we
find that sane spirit Of segregation.
II has fallen to the cata ogues of
great universities to find peculiar
spheres OF learning to isolate and in.
timidate and in this sphere of higher
learning we find men who have won
their degrees by specializing upon
the life OF tadpo'e or digging into
Greek roots. So pronounced Is this
tendency that We need not be surpris-
ed yet to find a chair set apart
for the contemplation of the left wing
Of Mississippi mosquito. Laugh
ter) s...;.as5 ~. 3....s4 j s
Don't understand me to j oppose
specialization. A man must have a
vocation and he must know II. But 4
am very far from saying he should
know nothing else. This standing
apart. keeping oneself isolated. con.
tracted, all tend to take the solidari.
ty from modern society and ciyi.iza-
tion is quivering and trembling with a
4 looseness that is full OF prophecies OF
terrible consequences. s -s
Where IL our security when face to
face with these doubts. The poor
have already become jealous Of the
rich, and the rich are Indifferent to
the poor. The ignorant enyies the
learned and the learned is forgetful
Of the unlearned. The weak distrust
the strong and the strong ignore the
weak. There Is a over class charg.
ing society with infidelity AMI the
whole service Of life is one torturous
scene.
"0ur civilization in society, In gov.
ernment, in seligion, in the whole
realm Of human l;fe, must have some
solidifying force and who can furnish
this better than the college bred
mani" The orator added that to this
man be e'ongs the task of drawing these
iis.joined elements together.
Education" he continued, "youns
gentlemen. does most for you when II
gives you that broad spirit. Its OBJ
ject is not furnishing you information
alone nor endowing you mentally. II
"a not IFS province to open your mind
in one line but to open your soul in
many ways. II Is not TO open one
field but a THOUSAND fields. to bring
about an indestruetible kinship to
every field OF thought. The unedu-
Gated man drinks from one spring, vhe
educated man from a thousand
springs. The un earned man puts his
thoughts in one diaection and the
: learned into a thousand directions.
You cans get music from one note,
but harmony ana melody from many
notes. The Indian makes music by
beating monotonously upon drum
with one stick. The civilized man
wants a thousand chords. And out OF
this very antagonism, he lures his
sweetest notes.
I feel sorry for the man OF one
.dea. II he is lawyer, he wants TO
talk OF the last decision Of the 81.
preme court. II a banker. he dis.
cusses money, II doctor In these
times. he talks Of appendicitis laugh
teri and a bio ogist regales You with
the study OF bugs. Oh. for the man
who can talk Of two things. of many
things. who can finally speak the dia.
lect of every thought"
The doctors story Of the northwest.
erner rummaging about Europe on
pleasure" trip. watch was not a
pleasure at all, was amusing. This
thrifty American took his daughters
abroad and spent a time there going
through the places Of instruction
sought so eagerly by the American
mind. What a torture and a misery
he suffered. the preacher went on.
"He could not hear from the markets
the netighborhood gossip. He hal
seen no mai In three weeks and he
feared that the markets were all on.
All that he could do was to put on a
dress suit and go out and listen to
singing until midnight. He was mis-
cradle because he could not stand
where Napoleon stood and battered
down the despotism that stood In the
way Of his people. He was miserab e
because he could not stand at Water.
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