The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-28

lords of the Frankish host were stricken at Roncesvalles.
 Need of Individual Character.
 Let those who have. keep, let those who have not. strive to attain high standard of cultivation and scholar ship. Yet let us remember that these stand second to certain other things There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind But above mind and above body stands character. the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a mans force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor. I believe in exercise of the body. always provided that we keep in mind that physical development is a means and not an end. l believe, of course, in giving to all the people a good education But the education must contain much be- sides book-learning in order to be really good We must ever remember that no keenness. and subtleness of intellect, no polish, no cleverness in any way make up for the lack of great solid es-self-restraint, self-mas- tery, common sense, the power of ac- cepting individual responsibility and yet, of acting in conjunction with others. Courage and resolution; these are the qualities which mark mas terful people. Without them no peo- pie can control itself or save itself from being controlled from the out side. speak to brilliant assemblage: l speak in a great university which represents the flower of the highest intellectual development; l pay all homage to intellect, and to elaborate and specialized training of the intel feet; and yet l know I shall have the assent of all you present when I add that more important still are the com monplace, everyday qualities and vir- tues.
 The Evils of SteriIity.
 In the next place the good man should be both a strong and a brave man; that is, he should be able to fight, he should be able to serve his country as a soldier if the need arises There are well-meaning philosophers who declaim against the unrighteous ress of war. They are right, only they lay all their emphasis upon the unrighteousness. War is a dreadful thing, and unjust; war is a crime against humanity. But it is such a crime because it is unjust, not because it is war. The choice must ever be in favor of righteousness, and this whether the alternative be peace or whether the alternative be war The question must not be merely, is there to be peace or war? The question | must be. is the right to prevail? Are the great laws of righteousness once more to be fulfilled? And the answer from a strong and virile people must be, Yes, whatever the cost. Every honorable effort should always be
 made by the individual in private life to Keep out of a brawl, to keep out 1 of trouble; but no self-respecting indi-
 vidual. no self-respecting nation. can
 or ought to submit to wrong
 Finally, even more important than ability to work. even more important
 than ability to fight at need, is it to i remember that the chief of blessings l for any nation is that it shall leave it's | seed to inherit the land It was the crown of blessings in Biblical times. and it is the crown of blessings now. f The greatest of all curses is the curse of sterility. and the severest of all cCndemnations should be that visited upon wilful sterility. The first es- sential in any civilization is that the man and the woman shall be father and mother of healthy children. so that the race shall increase and not decrease. If this is not so. if through no fault of society there is failure to increase. it is a great misfortune. If the failure is due to deliberate and wilful fault. then it is not merely a | misfortune. it is one of those crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of shrink
 ng from pain and effort and risk which in the long run nature punishes i more heavily than any other
 Ioie Achievements.
 If we of the great republics, if we { the free people who claim to have emancipated ourselves from the thral | dom of wrong and error, bring down on our heads the curse that comes
 upon the wllfully barren then it will ! be an idle waste of breath to prattle of our achievements. to boast of all ] that we have done. No refinement of l life. no delicacy of taste, no material
 progress. no sordid heaping up of | riches. no sensuous development of art and literature, can in any way com 1 pensate for the loss of the great l fundamental virtues; and of the great l fundamental virtues, the greatest is | the races power to perpetuate the l race.
 l But if mans efficiency is not gui- | ded and regulated by moral sense. i then the more efficient he is the worse l he is, the more dangerous to the body 1 polite Courage. intellect. all the mas | terful qualities, serve but to make ] man more evil if they are used merely ! for that mans own advancement. with brutal indifference to the rights of others Ii SUpakS i'll for the com