The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-13

compliment for Germans.
There must, in addition, be that
shown in such signal fashion during
the last half-century. Moreover, the
things Of the spirit are even more i'm
Portant than the things of the body.
erance and arid intellectual barren
ness Of what YVES worst in the theo-
logical systems Of the past, but there
has never been greater need of a high
and fine religious spirit than at the
present time. So, while we can laugh
spontaneously at some of the preten-
slons OF modern philosophy In its varf-
GUS branches, it would be worse than
folly on our part TO ignore our need
of intellectual leadership. Your own
great Frederick once said that II he
wished to punish a province he would
leave IL TO be governed by philosoph-
ers; the sneer had in it an element of
Justice; and yet no one better than
the great Frederick knew the value of
philosophers, the value of men OF
would be a bad thing, indeed. to accent
Tolstoy as guide in social and moral
matters; but it would also be bad
thing not to have Tolstoy. not to profit
There are plenty of Scientific men
whose hard arrogance, whose cynical
mater1alfsm, whose dOgmetic intoler-
ance, put them on a level with the
blgoted medieval ecclesiasticis,o which
they denounce. Yet our debt to s.ian-
tific men Is incalcuIable, and our civ
itizatlon of today would have reft from
II an that which most highly distin-
guishes 1t If the work of the great
masters of science during the mast
four centuries were now undone or for
gotten Never has philanthropy. hui
manitarlanism, seen such development
as now; and though we uust ali he
ware Of the folly and the viciousness
no worse than folly, which marks fhe
believer in the perfectiDliity OF man
Wnen his heart runs away with his
mead, or when vanity usurps .he nlace
of conscience, yet we must rernemher
also that 1T as only by working along
the lines laid down by the phfianthrc,.
pists. by the lovers of mankind. that
we can be sure OF lifting our ciyi,fza-
tion to higher and more permanent
plane OF well-being than was ever at
tanned by any preceding civilization.
Unjust war is TO be abhorred; but woe
TO the nation that does not make ready
TO hold its own In time of need arainSt
all who would harm 1t; and woe Thrice
over to the nation In which the avers re
man loses the fighting edges, loses the
power to serve as a soldier il the dav
of need should arise. oS
1t is no impossible dream to buiJd
up civilization In which moralitv
ethical development and a true feeljn~
OF orotnerhood shall all alike be d.
vorced from false sentimentatty. and
from the rancorous and evil passions
which. curiously enough, so often ac-
company professions of sentimental at
tachment to the rights of man; in which
a high material development in the
things of the body shall be achieved
without subordination of the things Of
the soul; in which there shall be a
genuine desire for peace and justice
without loss of those vfrile qualities
without which no love of peace or
justice shall avail any race; In which
the fullest development of scientific
research, the great distinguishing fea-
ture of our present civilization. shall
yet not imply a belief that intellect
can ever take the place of character
for, from the standpoint OF the nation
as of the individual. 1T is character
that is the one vital possession.
FINALLY, this world movement of