Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-30

ton to oneself to succeed no matter
what obstacles and barriers have t.
be beaten down-:hesc qualities, ane
qualities such as these, are what rise
to our minds when VI speak Of a mar
or a woman as having character, IL
contradistinction to one who possesse'
only intellect. There Is. moreover
one quality which perhaps strictly
speaking is as much intellectual as
moral, but which is too often wholly
lacking In men OF high intellectual
ability, and without which real char
acter cannot exlst-namely, the fun
damental gift of ommOn sense.
Admire Intellect.
81 am far from decrying intellect. ]
Join with the world in admiring it
and paying homage to It. Without 1t,
above all without its highest expires.
sion, genius, the world would move
forward but slowly, and the purple
patches in the gray garment Of our
actual lives would be sadly shorn OF
their glory. Nevertheless, exactly as
strength comes before beauty. so
character music eve stand above in.
%tellecrual vigor which shows itself on.
ly in commercial ism, in business
achievement; Il kind Of intellectual
power which is absolutely necessary
to either individual or national suc-
cess under present day conditions, anu
indeer under all proper conditions, but
which becomes a curse instead Of a
blessing II treated as In itself an end
instead o fthe carefully regulated
means to an end.
"ln some other countries the intel
lectual manifestations, instead of be-
ing subord mated. to materialistic
achievement, are turned almost Who'll
ly into artistic, literary, or pAiloso-
phical channels. Here again, there
must be such intellectual development
II the nation is to make q high and
lasting impress on history; and yet
there must also be far than such
development il the nation is to econ.
rlish all that IT'S intellect warrants.
From the standpoint of national great.
ness neither the intellect which finds
It's expression in commercialism, nor
the intellect which finds its expression
In artistic achievement, can perman.
emily avail unless based on a founda.
! on or character.
This is the lesson taught by tho
careers Of tn reeof the most famous
peoples of antiquity. In the third cen.
fury before u era the civilized world
was under the divided sway Of the
Romans, the Greeks an dthe Phc~.A
clan jewellers in Carthage. The
Greeks we're beyond question the
most br111ian people that ever lived
and from that day to this all. poets.
artists, philosophers and historians
bowed to them as masters They
developed to the highest point to
which 1t has ever been developed the
cultural side Of the intellect. On the
hand, the totally different form
Of intellect which finds its expression
in purely, commercial success has
never been more highly developed
than IN the rich mercantile o~ligarchy
which ruled Carthage as similar oil.
Earchies had once ruled Sidon and
Tyre.
y Old Masters Spiritual Heirs.
Michael Angelo. Rafel. Dante. Ger
N"ntes and Camoens. and all the
scholars and philosophers of the most
femous medieval universities were
the spiritual heirs of the Hellenic re-
and Helenistic KINGDOMS: and
all the achievements of the modern
lords OF finance and captains Of, in.
when we consider the relative
means with which the ancients work.
d onot surpass those Of the mar.
Vicious masters of commerce whose
keels furrowed tle waters of unknown
i'll order to swell the princeiy
wealth, of the Mediterranean merchant
cities. Yet the Greek and the Car
alike were struck down bv
the iron Roman; because, although
the Roman had neither the fine cul-
ture Of the one nor the commercial
genius of the other. he possessed wla+
both of them lacked. the grim strength
Of character which showed itself in
scOrna of mere luxury. in Of du.
tv to the commonwealth. in poweT to
command and to obey and in the un-
shaken fortitude and endurance which
enabled him TO wrest ultimate triumph
out Of Immediate disaster.
"Under present dav conditions.
character needs to show itself In diff
ferent fashion. Nevertheless, it is as
vitality necessary as e to the we'll
being Of a nation. If the. men of
wealth and social standing grow idle
aud luxurious, If they shirk the per
Torrance Of the duty to the whole
neople which their position ought to
entail. if they lose their sense Of pa.
triotism and, whether, at home Or in
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