The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

the dreams Of golden glory in the futurs
VIII not come true unless. high of heart
and strong of hand, by our own mighty
not afford to develop any one set of quail
tiles. any one set of activities, at the cost
0 OF seeing 9thers equally neoessaTy afro
the Mongol, the extraordinary business
ability Of the Phoenician,- nor the subtle
ed to avert destruction
Needs of Today.
We, the men OF today and of the future
work Wei: We need. vi first Of all az S ena
most important OF ALL the qualities which
fe the as eaSe fa 1 ANY Of fai
virtues; If the average man viii not
the power to be a good husband and
father; if the average woman is not a
healthy children. then the state viii top
PIE w VIII b- 20 down =. no matter what may
or material achievement But these
homely. qualities are not enough. There
must. in addition, be that power of or
mon for common end, which the Ger
man people have shown in such signal
Moreover, the things Of the spirit are
even more important than the things of
the body. We can well do without the
hard intolerance and arid intellectual
barrenness of what was worst in the the
illogical systems of the past, but there
has never been greater need of a high
and fine religious spirit than at the pres
ent time. So, while can laugh good
humoredly at some of the pretensions OF
modern philosophy in its various branch
es, 1t would be worse than folly our
Eeadership your o neee Great 9i inEg9eIT
once said that if he wished to punish a
province he would leave it to be governed
by philosophers; the sneer had in it
element of justice; and yet no one better
than the great Frederick knew the value
science, men of letters, men of art 1t
would be bad thing indeed to accept
matters; but It would also be a bad thing
not to have Tolstoy, not to profit by the
lofty side Of his teachings. There are
gance, whose cynical materialism, whose
dogmatic Intolerance, put them on a level
with the bigoted medieval ecclesiasticism
which they denounce. Yet our debt to
scientific men is incalculable, and our
it ali that which most highly distinguishes
it If the work of the great masters OF
science during. the past four centuries
has philanthropy, humanitarianism, seen
such development as now; and though We
viciousness no worse than folly, which
marks the believer in the perfectibility OF
man when his heart runs away with his
head, or when vanity usurps the place OF
conscience, yet we must remember also
that it is only by working along the lines
laid down by the phtlanthropists, by the
lovers of mankind, that we can be sure
of lifting our civilization to a higher and
more permanent plane of well-being than
was ever attained by any preceding
civilization. Unjust war is to be abhor-
red; but woe to the nation that does not
make ready to hold its own In time OF
need against all who would harm it; and
woe thrice over to the nation in which
loses the power to serve as a soldier if
the day of need should arise.
No Impossible Dream.
It is no impossible dream to build W. a
velopment, and a true feeling of brother
hood shall all alike be divorced from false
and evil passions which. curiously
enough often accompany professions
Of sentimental attachment to the rights
ment in the things of the body shall be
achieved without subordination of the
a genuine desire for peace and justice
without loss OF those virile qualities with
eR w He a mo Ioxe IN RcS t Gr ues
development Of scientific research, the
great distinguishing feature of our pres
ent civilization, shall yet not imply be-
lief that intellect can ever take the place
of Characterization, from the standpoint OF
the nation Of the Individual. it is char
acter that is the one vital possession
Finally, this world movement of civihZa-
ton, this movement Whlch IS now ret
should bind the nations Of the world to-
/ gether 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 world 5 we'll
1 being. You, my hearers, and 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 justice to others; but each people
/ can do its part in the world movement for
| all only If it first does its duty within it's
| own household. The good citizen must
| be good citizen of his own country first
| before he can with advantage be a citizen
4 of the world at large 1 wish you well.
\ I believe in you and your future. ad-
| Tnire and wonder at the extraordinary
greatness and variety OF your achieve
nents in so many and such widely differ
/ ent fields; and my admiration and regard
are all the greater. and not the less, be-
/ cause am so profound a believer in the
/ institutions and the people Of my own
| land.
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