New-York tribune., 1909-04-26

of Voltaire and Chesterfield and Dr. Johnson. Then
comes the deuge and he rises naturalist, scien-
tfic, an industrial, business man, an economist
a man of machinery and inventions and self-inade
Everynan has lived all this and does not know
ii, for the records deep in his unconsciousness
Everyman must know all this, and he must ex-
perimentally live through it, recapiuate the stages
and the ages. a liberal education is an introduc-
ton into full fellowship OF the great and good Of
every age; that is Of every one of the seven cult
ured ages.
How give Everyman liberal education? Fill
his eyes with the busts. portraits and costumes Of
each succeeding century, and thus make the outer
film; ill his mind with the words, verses. feelings
thoughts. phrases IDEAS ideals aspirations inspira
tiols of each succeeding century for the intimate
edicatiOn of the Thus will he arrive. HaV-
ing passed through Greece, Rome, Dark Ages.
Renaissance Reformation, Court and Revolution.
Thus viii he arrive his brain full blown Thus his
eye is opened the universal insight; thus he be-
comes the Uono universale the head capable OF all
things great and high.
How make the universae. how transform
Everyman into prince? A modern university IS
too crowded; he had best be much alone and with
two or three a chosen few like the Concord
group the Weimer group. a modern library
is too large. Let him build rather cupola. con-
struCt a round temple oCtagon summer house
eight feet across. One side serves as entrance.
In the midst is round table. On the seven sides
the seven chambers of humanity. Greek
Roman, Medieval. Renaissance. Reformation
Court, Revolution. The seven chambers are ready
Now must furnish them. Give Us health and
day Speedily now with hammer and nails put
up the busts portraits. the costumes It Is done
in a day. bread. kingdoms. stars Sleep now ana
tomorrow put the soul in.
What is the body of humanity what is the
soul OF humanity? Greek archaeology is the body
Of Greece. Greek literature is the soul Of Greece
Archaeology of Rome is the body of Rome Latin
literature is the soul of Rome Bring Homer and
Fesiod Pluto Aristotle and Plutarch for the Greek
chamber. Inhale these for year, month or a
day, and You become a Grecian. Where IS the
s,ul of Rome? In 5.ucretius. Horace. Virgil
Cicero and Marcus Aureus. Have you put the
soul into the second chamber? Now for the Dark
Ages Bring Dante Petrarch. Chaucer. the Bible
and the limitation Augustines Confessions
For convenience sake It IS best at first to keep
to the scale Of five. What for the next chamber?
What five books for the spirit of the Renaissance2
AIiost9. Cervantes. Shakespeare. Rabelais, Mon
taigne How would you like 10 live for a season
with these spirits?
Now for the next chamber Dramas Of Calderon
and Otway for the soul Of the cavalier Milton
and Bunyan for that of the Puritan, Moere for
that of the wording What shall put in
the century of the Court? Ask Pope. Addison,
Cowper. Gray. Goldsmith TO introduce you TO the
circle of the scholars and gentlemen. What for
the nineteenth century chamber? What five books
contain the soul of the nineteenth century? Tenny
SON. Browning Matthew Arnold. LongfelOw, Emer-
son? VIII these DO? Are these the soul of the
century? How many books in al7 Thirty-tive
Are you ready and have you seven summer months
or seven winter months to give to it?
DR. WALLACE WOOD.
Professor Samuel F. Morse Chair of Art, New
York University
New York, April ., 1909.