Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-22

project; but yesterday lives in today,
crystallized in the form of power; to-
morrow lives in today, crystallized in
the form of hope and yearning. To
keep alive what is past, and bring
into existence what should be, is the
chief mission of education.
1.-THE chief sources of our life, in
modern times, are to be found in Ju-
dea as shown in our Bible; in Greece,
as shown in the Had and the Odyssey,
Plato and Aristotle; in Rome, as shown
in our government, and the Divine
Comedy In Europe we find these all
summed up by two great poets, Shake
speare and Goethe.
Names Five Great Books
"These five great books-Homer, the
Bible Divine Comedy, Shakespeare,
Goethe's Faust-perhaps reveal more
of the world we live in, its accom-
plishments and it's ideals than any
other books one could find The person
learning, say, the story of Joseph, has
in mind not only what the author had
in mind when the story was told, but
he has in mind what every person
from that time until the present has
thought who was familiar with the
story.
"The same is true of the stories of
Ulysses-Ulysses, on the island of
Calypso, when his men made swine OF
themselves through their intemper-
ance and debauchery. He knows not
only that story, as Homer told it, but
he kows also a feature of human ma
ture that has been expressed in beau
tlful form and thought by scores OF
generations of people.
Dante, in his Divine Comedy held
the mirror up to human nature. reveal
fnu fn he lynaGG form
evil, showing sin and it's reward grow
ing out of the same stem. Shakespeare
lived in the palmiest days of chivalry,
an age of great men, an age OF far-
reaching ideas. He summed up chiv-
airy in beautiful form, giving us Ju-
Illus Caesar, Macbeth, Merchant of
Venice, Hamlet. Midsummer Nights
Dream and the Tempest.
1.-TWO hundred years later came the
time of the great philosophical move
ment, the French revolution, and the
time of Kant, Hegel, Fichte and Her
der; and Goethe, who is universal
spirit, to whom all things were inter-
esting, to whom all things had value
He was a philosopher and scientist, a
musician, landscape gardener, novelist
hunter, hail fellow well met, but above
all a seer and a poet. who saw the
everlasting veritles, their length and
DreduIn ana ubpIl, saw NlliI away .
has been, and therefore what always
will be. He lived to be 50 years old,
and from his youth to his death he
had constantly two great works in
mind, each of which had as it's object
the evolution of the human soul-Wil-
helm Meister and Faust. In Wilhelm
Meister he gives exactly what he re-
CARDS as the perfect system of edu-
cation. 1t is in Wilhelm Meister he
says The best is none too good But
| it is in Faust that one comes into
contact with an educational system
which absorbs all ethical development,
and transcending it, enters into the
celestial development of the human
being"
School Law Explained
County superintendent Mark Keppel
explained the workings of the new
school law to the principals at their
meeting in Symphony hall yesterday
afternoon. He made a particular point
about handling funds derived from en-
tertainments where school buildings
are used. He said that all funds
which come into the hands of teachers
or principals should be turned over to
the county treasurer, who upon re-
quest will draw warrants for such
moneys as should be paid out. Super
intendent Keppel said that by using
this method all possibility of charges
of graft will be eliminated
His remarks caused a great deal or