The San Francisco call., 1910-05-13

what may be its Dr1ll1dnce OF at
-tistic development or material
qualities are not enough. There
must, in addition. be that power OF
organization. that power OF work
ing in common for common end END,
shown in such signal fashion during
the last half century.
SPIRITUAL NEED
+ Moreover, the things of the
spirit are even more important than
the things of the body. We can
well do without the hard intoler-
ance and arid intellectual barren
illogical systems of the past, but
there has never been greater need
OF high and fine religious spirit
than at the present time. So, while
some of the pretensions OF modern
philosophy in it's various branches,
1t would be worse than folly on our
part to ignore our need of intel
Frederick once said that if he
wished to punish a province he
would leave il to be governed by
philosophers; the sneer had in 1t
one better than the great Frederick
knew the value of philosophers, the
value of men of science, men of let
ters, men of art.
.It would be a bad thing indeed
to accept To1stoy as a guide in So
also be a bad thing not to have
Tolstoy. not to profit by the lofty
side of his teachings. There are
plenty of scientific men whose hard
arrogance. whose cynical material
ism, whose dogmatic intolerance
put them on a level with the big
oted medieval ecclesiastfcism which
they denounce. Yet our debt to sci
civilization of today would have reft
from it all that which most highly
distinguishes it if the work of the
great masters of science during the
last four centuries were now un-
done or forgotten.
LOVERS OF MANKIND
Never has philanthropy. human
itarianism, seen such development
as now; and though we must all
beware of the folly and the vicious
ness no worse than folly which
marks the believer in the perfect
away with his head, or when vanity
usurps the place of conscience, yet
we must remember also that il is
only by working along the lines
by the lovers of mankind, that we
can be sure of lifting our civiliza-
uton to a higher and more perma-
nent plane Of well being than was
ever attained by any preceding civ
Unjust war is to be abhorred;
but woe to the nation that does not
make ready to hold its own ia time
of need against all who would harm
it; and woe thrice over to the nation
in which the average man loses the
lighting edge, loses the power to
serve as soldier if the day of
need should arise.
1T is no impossible dream to
morality. ethical development, and
a true feeling of brotherhood shall
all alike be divorced from false
sentimentality, and frCR the ran
riously enough. so often accompany
professions of sentimental attach
ment to the rights of man; in
which a high material development
achieved without subordination of
the things of the soul; In which
there shall be genuine desire for
peace and justice without loss of
those virile qualities without
which no love of peace or Justice
shall avail any race; in which the
fullest development of scientific re-
search. the great distinguishing
feature of our present civilization
shall yet not imply a belief that in
tellect can ever take the place of
chara acter-for. from the standpoint
of the nation as Of the Individual
it is character that is the one vital
possession.
NATIONS DRAWN TOGETHER
Finally. this world movement Of
civilization, this movement which
is now felt threbbing in every cor
ner of the globe. should bind the
nations of the world together while
yet leaving unimpaired that love of
country in the individual citizen
which in the present stage of the
worlds progress is essential to the
worlds well being.
You, my hearers. and L who
speak to YOU, belong to different
nations. Under modern conditions
the books we read. the news sent
by telegraph to our newspapers. the
strangers we meet, half of the
things we hear and do each day, all
tend to bring US into touch with
other peoples. Each people can do
Justice to itself only If it does JUS
tice to others; but each people can
DO It's part in the world movement
for all only if it first does its dutv
within it's own household. The good
citizen must be a good citizen of
his own country first before he can
with advantage be a citizen of the
world at large.
Il wish you we'll. I believe in Won
and your future. 1 admire and won
der at the extraordinary greatness
and variety of your achievements
in so many and such widely differ
ent fields; and my admiration and
regard are all the greater. and NOT
the less, because / am so profound
a believer in the institutions and
the people OF my own land"