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humanity dominated and controlled
by the military spirit, at other times
by the religious spirit, not infrequent-
ly by the two combined, again by the
legal spirit and by the military and
legal spirit, and always ruled by the
power of money; at all times preach
ing and promising the brotherhood of
man but never attaining it except in
modified and attenuated form.
Here we have great republic es-
tablished ON the fundamental base
that "all men are created free and
equal" With the best of intentions
and efforts at equal opportunities of
education through the highest devel-
opment of the public school that the
world has seen, yet we have never
4 theless failed of attaining the maxi
mum of productive capacities both
for the poor who are allowed to leave
school at fourteen and for the rich
who are educated in false atmos-
phere and know not life itself. We
have in consequence one kind of ed
ucation for the poor, another for the
rich, and through individualism, self
ishness and the love of power have
people divided against itself, and
it is known that "house divided
against itself cannot stand"
Let us then be frank with our
selves and our national ideal, and es-
tablish one community in the form of
a university wherein science and art
will be enthroned as the dominating
spirits, and where everyone will be
judged by his deeds, where the self
reliant and self-support shall rule.
Under such influence the mature
students when leaving the institution
may hope to have greater earning
capacity than when they entered il
and be better fitted to take hold OF
life to make of it peace on earth
good will toward men,"
In outline this is the kind of insti-
tuition contemplated by Senator Bor-
all of Idaho, in his bill to establish
the federal university to be located
at Washington and be in cooperation
with the state, colleges, universities
and experimental stations, and have
local cooperative centers wherever
the people want them. A university
within reach of every citizen who
wishes to better his physical, mental
or spiritual condition by his own eff
forts for the purpose of life is not
only prosperity but self-development.
1t is estimated that there are over
ten million children in the United
States between the ages of fifteen
and twenty-one, and good proper
ton of these do not know how to do
anything very well and do not want
to do anything very much their pro-
ductive capacities have been only
partly developed. They are drifting
from one temporary occupation to
another. Although they are minors
they have no protection as such and
are at the mercy of every employer
who wants their time and their en-
ergy because it is cheap. Their only
idea of an education is that by means
of it they may attain a life of idle
ness. AS minors they are entitled to
be taught how to make the most of
their abilities, and they need to be
inspired by the idealism of a great
university wherein self-reliance and
self-support may be the means of ad-
vancement not only materially but in
tellectually and spiritually.
To help make world where no
one has the right to idleness but
where all work in cooperative in
stead of competitive way for the
uplift of mankind.
There has never been a university
based on fundamental principle that
each student shall be self-sustain-
ing unit until the same as the world
itself demands of most of us. The
trustees or regents of this university
are to be selected from men who
have experience in the application of
the arts and sciences to the needs of
daily life and having made success of
their own private affairs it is to be
assumed that they can put such an
institution on a practical basis The
long term of service of the trustees
insures permanency of policy.
While congress is asked to make
the initial appropriation the founda-
ton endowment feature of the uni
versity will attract endownments
from those who have money to leave
for the benefit of mankind, no mat
ter in what form the fund is intend
ed to apply to the betterment of life.
Such university will deal with life
in every form, and will set up an